Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: Add awk wrapper - eawk - edit file in place
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 03:07:22
Message-Id: 20160520030711.GU26300@vapier.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: Add awk wrapper - eawk - edit file in place by Mart Raudsepp
1 On 20 May 2016 02:16, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
2 > I would like if such a function would explicitly document that calling
3 > this function means the caller should DEPEND on an awk provider.
4 > Similarly, I would like that all ebuild that call 'sed' actually DEPEND
5 > on sed, not just half of them.
6 > I would also like that no ebuild would assume packages in @system to be
7 > present, beyond those dictated by PMS (unpackers and such).
8
9 this is all a terrible terrible idea and has been hashed/explained a
10 number of times on this list. have you ever tried looking at the tools
11 configure scripts run ?
12 -mike

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