Re: [PATCH] Mention 'cpio' dependency in INSTALL

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

Thanks.

We use many other tools that are typically found in bog-standard UNIX environments, like sed, echo, cat, sort, etc. and we do not list them in the INSTALL file (nor we would want to). cpio used to be in the "bog standard" category but perhaps Linux distros do not install it by default, so it is worth listing it there.

Are there other commands we rely on that may not be universally installed? I myself consider "cut" to be in the category, but other than that I do not think of anything offhand.