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On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Joe Peterson wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > wrong. bash and GNU prevail because they provide useful extensions. it |
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> > may be worthwhile to force `find` in the portage environment to be GNU |
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> > find so we can stop wasting time trying to figure out how to rewrite |
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> > expressions in ebuilds (which can be done trivially with GNU) with a |
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> > limited functionality set (such as POSIX). |
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> Shouldn't we do just the opposite? GNU find doesn't exist on all archs |
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> (BSD is an example). There was just an example of GNU extensions being |
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> used on find that broke on FreeBSD. It would be more portable to |
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> *avoid* GNU-only extensions in ebuilds. |
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as mentioned, GNU is the main bread and butter of Gentoo. forcing the |
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majority of people to go pure POSIX in the face of GNU extensions that make |
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life easier is wrong. so the minority gets screwed, that's life. especially |
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considering it's trivial for the minority to conform. |
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-mike |
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