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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-osx@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-osx] Re: sys-apps/findutils (GNU)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:23:24
Message-Id: 200511102022.48499@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-osx] Re: sys-apps/findutils (GNU) by Grobian
1 On Thursday 10 November 2005 18:19, Grobian wrote:
2 > I agree with you, but I don't follow your reasoning. Portage IMHO
3 > expects it's own (GNU) find and xargs. Or well, not Portage, but devs
4 > that just create ebuilds on Gentoo Linux and don't mind about your bugs
5 > for sticking to a common subset of supported flags.
6 No, people got already stabbed for using GNU find options in ebuilds, as they
7 are not portable and IIRC this was already clear a lot of time ago.
8 And for the rest, give me the ones who don't care about my bugs, and I'll see
9 with their herd/project/whatever will be.
10
11 > The alias sed
12 > -> gsed is only used in Portage itself, it's *not* set in the global
13 > profile for the user.
14 Right
15
16 > Which is nice. Why don't we (OSX) use this ebuild? (If it indeed does
17 > what I think it does.)
18 Because it's not in main tree? Remember when I said you should start looking
19 at the gentoo-alt overlay?
20
21 > Then this rather innocent email I started this thread with, turns out to
22 > be a the cause of a valuable conclusion, that you and I need to do some
23 > work on this subject.
24 Right.
25
26 --
27 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
28 Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE

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Re: [gentoo-osx] Re: sys-apps/findutils (GNU) Grobian <grobian@g.o>