requires(post) on coreutils

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:56:24PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > We can look at binaries to see what libs they need, can we not look at %post
> > scripts and figure out if coreutils is required?
> 
> Or have a two phase install, one where we put the minimum OS down, and
> the second where we install your apps.  Come on - coreutils isn't an
> addon package.

Install of any single package in a chroot should not be broken.
It even should be functional in most cases. Like
yum --installroot=/some/where package
with an empty /some/where

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Pat