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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion to drop "pcre" from default enabled USE flags in profiles
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:24:50
Message-Id: 201206061323.09670.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion to drop "pcre" from default enabled USE flags in profiles by Pacho Ramos
1 On Wednesday 06 June 2012 04:26:11 Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > I think that would be interesting to try to not get grep build with pcre
3 > support by default, specially after reading "man grep" and seeing that
4 > its support is tagged as experimental:
5 > -P, --perl-regexp
6 > Interpret PATTERN as a Perl regular expression. This is
7 > highly
8 > experimental and grep -P may warn of unimplemented
9 > features.
10
11 the experimental aspect doesn't matter. don't use -P and it isn't an issue.
12
13 personally, i don't care about pcre.
14 -mike

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