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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: r3200 - main/trunk/bin
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:43:30
Message-Id: 200604240142.30904.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: r3200 - main/trunk/bin by Alec Warner
1 On Monday 24 April 2006 01:09, Alec Warner wrote:
2 > Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:36, Alec Warner wrote:
4 > >>Modified:
5 > >> main/trunk/bin/sed
6 > >>Log:
7 > >>Make sed wrapper not executable.
8 > >
9 > > why ? it isnt hurting anything to be set executable
10 >
11 > At present it is not in the pre9 tarball. However it is in SVN, so it
12 > will make it into the tarball eventually.
13 >
14 > Since it's in /bin it will get installed with all the other binaries.
15 > However it's a !GNU only sed wrapper, so in this case once it is added
16 > to the tarball it will be installed on all systems, but set +x only on
17 > non GNU systems.
18
19 imo, relying on the existence is a better idea than relying on it being +x
20
21 so i'd leave it +x everywhere but delete it on GNU systems
22
23 think like cygwin where files are always +x ...
24 -mike
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