Re: Add 'Required Tools' to README?

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
>       Add shell, coreutils, diffutils, grep, tar, gzip.

What are 'tar' and 'gzip' used for? For building distribution tarballs.
But that's outside the scope of gnulib. It's done through a Makefile rule
produced by 'automake'. Therefore I consider that 'tar' and 'gzip' are
merely indirect dependencies, and should therefore not be listed.

Just like 'cvs' is an indirect dependency of 'gettext' (for autopoint).
It's listed in gettext's DEPENDENCIES file, not here.

Any objection to removing the mention of 'tar' and 'gzip' here?

Bruno


*** DEPENDENCIES        4 Apr 2007 23:07:00 -0000       1.6
--- DEPENDENCIES        4 Apr 2007 23:08:25 -0000
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*** 90,104 ****
      http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/
      ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/
  
- * GNU Tar 1.11.8 or newer.
-   + Recommended.
-     Needed if you want to make a software distribution.
-   + Homepage:
-     http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
-   + Download:
-     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/
-     ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/
- 
  * GNU gettext 0.16.1.
    + Recommended.
      Needed if you use modules that use internationalization (many do).
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*** 126,139 ****
      http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gperf/
      ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gperf/
  
- * Gzip (GNU zip) 1.2.4 or newer.
-   + Recommended.
-   + Homepage:
-     http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/
-   + Download:
-     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/
-     ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/
- 
  * Texinfo 4.2 or newer.
    + Recommended.
      Needed if you use modules that include documentation.
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