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To start.. I humbly ask for no response vs starting a flamewar.. |
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Short version: |
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The proposed change will require changes in two places, but may cause |
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other breakage and or simply not settle well with general consensus. |
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1) Add a symlink in GNU patch ebuild to symlink patch to gpatch |
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2) Change references to patch in eclass/eutils.eclass to gpatch |
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Benefit is that on systems != Linux where GNU patch exists in the |
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subpath to some crappy legacy thing which probably shouldn't even be |
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called patch.. On these systems calling gpatch explicitly means GNU |
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patch and avoids the whole PATH and incompatibility issue. |
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Would this benefit those working on the FBSD? |
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Anyone interested in OpenSolaris? |
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I have other changes I'm making to remove GNUisms, but this one I'm not |
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seeing much hope for and will pop up on every emerge --sync.. |
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patch -p0 -g0 -E --no-backup-if-mismatch < /opt/foo/bar.patch |
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Suggestions? |
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Thanks |
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./Christopher |
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