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#1 2016-10-25 12:57:02

Starfish
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Registered: 2015-10-21
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[SOLVED] Why does the kernel depend on the coreutils?

This is not a question about something that's broken on my system, but something I am curious about and do not understand:
I just queried the kernel package for fun and got confused with its dependency

$ pacman -Qi linux | grep -i depend
Depends on: coreutils linux-firmware kmod mkinitcpio>=0.7

The coreutils are userspace tools which themselves depend on the system call interface offered by the kernel. The kernel itself interprets hardware and allocated resources to processes. So why should it depend on the coreutils, while in reality it's the other way around?

Last edited by Starfish (2016-10-25 17:46:55)


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#2 2016-10-25 16:39:10

ukhippo
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Re: [SOLVED] Why does the kernel depend on the coreutils?

Those are package dependencies. The package includes an install script to run mkinitcpio (hence also the dependency on mkinitcpio).

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