rationale for "debianutils" directory?

[Glenn L. McGrath]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 13:05:11 -0500 (EST)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:

> 
>   i've always wondered what the justification is for a separate
> "debianutils" directory.  i mean, it's not as if what's in there is
> exclusive to debian-based systems.
> 
>   for instance, "run-parts" can be found on fedora core systems, as
> can mktemp and readlink and so on.  wouldn't it make more sense to
> just divvy up the contents of that directory among the other applet
> directories to which those tools are related?

>From debians debianutils
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mktemp
run_parts
which

>From debian installer (not sure if they ever used it)
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pipe_progress

>From Dpkg
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start_stop_daemon

Now part of coreutils
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readlink

I think readlink should move, i think it must have once been part of
debianutils, im not sure.

What packages do they belong to in fedora ?


Glenn