[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > I've never thought of that list in Utilities in Makefiles as being all > "utilities whose existence can be assumed everywhere", but rather > "utilities which need to exist to bootstrap a system".
In practice I think it means "utilities whose existence are needed to run 'configure' and 'make'". (Somewhere between the two, as one could in theory bootstrap by first building coreutils.) This particular case is only weak evidence that 'dd' needs to be in the list, since the code uses 'dd' only when /dev/urandom is readable, and I expect that 'dd' is supported everywhere /dev/urandom is.
