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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Add bc back to the stage3
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:58:32
Message-Id: 20140930185818.097f5ff7@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Add bc back to the stage3 by Tom Wijsman
1 On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 23:37:20 +0200
2 Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote:
3 > On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:05:19 +0000 (UTC)
4 > "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o> wrote:
5 > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote:
6 > > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 13:22:45 +0100
7 > > > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
8 > > >> On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 12:47:14 +0200
9 > > >> Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
10 > > >>> Because I'd expect a stage3 to be posix compliant
11 > > >>
12 > > >> I agree. It's time to replace nano with Vim.
13 > >
14 > > It seems like everyone needs to "chill" a bit. Ciaran wasn't
15 > > trolling, he was making a point. I'm sure everyone around here
16 > > understood his point. There were no attacks and no "foul language",
17 > > so can we move forward?
18 >
19 > Constructiveness does not rely on just making points, as replacing
20 > nano with Vim is out of the context of adding bc back to stage3.
21 > Editors are a world apart from a build tool, even more so from being
22 > POSIX. In order to move forward beyond this point, that needs to be
23 > recognized.
24
25 But POSIX does describe vi. That was the point...
26
27 (And until fairly recently, texlive used to require 'ex' if you wanted
28 to build it fully from unpatched sources.)
29
30 --
31 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Add bc back to the stage3 Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>