Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, C. Bergström wrote:
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>> Here's another idea and I don't know why I didn't think of it
>> sooner.. Instead of any system change to the patch ebuild.. Inside
>> the eutils.eclass do a quick check for gpatch and if it exists use
>> that vs patch.
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> Why not simply alias patch=gpatch in profile.bashrc?
> See the FreeBSD profile for an example.
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I'd like to package portage for OpenSolaris and have it just drop-in 
work so modifications like what you suggest wouldn't be required.  
Hopefully, base-system maintainers don't mind my request, but I can 
understand it's beyond the Linux use case.