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From: David Morgan <david.morgan@××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:36:09
Message-Id: 20050328163438.GA27936@valinor.dynalias.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed by "Diego \\\"Flameeyes\\\" Pettenò"
1 On 18:06 Mon 28 Mar , Diego Flameeyes Petten? wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > as I've already pointed out to Brad about mozilla-firefox new ebuild, there
4 > are a few ebuilds in which, for simple regexp replaces, perl is used with
5 > sintax perl -pi -e expression file.
6 > As perl is not in the core packages, using this requires adding perl to the
7 > buildtime dependency of the package. This is anyway an useless dependency as
8 > it isn't needed for something like that.
9 > A good replacement for it is using sed -i -e expression file, which is the
10 > same thing.
11 >
12
13 As of a couple of days ago, these are the packages which had ebuilds
14 using perl -pi -e:
15
16 vmware-workstation
17 openoffice-bin
18 openoffice-ximian-bin
19 openoffice-ximian
20 openoffice
21 gnome-pilot
22 sun-jdk
23 PerlQt
24 gtk-perl-glade
25 gtk-perl
26 rhide
27 netcomics-cvs
28 apache
29 mod_authenticache
30 mod_xslt
31 magic
32 pam
33 mozilla-firefox
34 mozilla
35
36 For individual ebuilds go to http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh2045/perls and
37 the above list is available at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh2045/perls2
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