On Sunday 07 October 2007, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 07-10-2007 10:19:43 -0600, Joe Peterson wrote:
> > So there are a couple of options, as I see it:
> >
> > 1) Limit tool options to those that are common to all tool variants
> > 2) Port a standard (i.e. GNU) set of tools to all platforms
> > 3) Force all gentoo ports to use GNU userland
> >
> > I think we'd all agree that #3 is too restrictive.  For example, g/fbsd
> > uses BSD's userland (like vanilla FreeBSD does), and making it GNU would
> > be a pretty major change.
>
> No, it is not.  The problem IMHO is in the "user" userland and the
> "portage" userland are being seen as one.  I think it would be very easy
> to install all GNU equivalents of tools on BSD in some separate dir, put
> it in portage's DEFAULT_PATH before /bin and /usr/bin and all would work
> perfectly well from the ebuild/eclass perspective.

Fabian has summed it up nicely, thanks.  i could care less what your userland 
is outside of the ebuild environment since it doesnt matter to ebuild 
writers.  you want a deficient runtime environment, more power to you, but 
forcing that environment onto ebuild developers is not acceptable.  off the 
top of my head, i'd like to see GNU find/xargs added to the ebuild 
environment.
-mike