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On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:08:54PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: |
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> Stephen Bennett wrote: |
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> > |
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> > Any comments? Suggestions, flames? (Except from ciaranm, of course...) |
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> I'd like to avoid gsed symlinks as much as possible. |
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> If GNU sed is better than the one provided by the system and the |
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> provided one doesn't have other extensions not covered by GNU sed then |
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> the simplest and better solution is replace the native with the improved. |
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> on other cases you may need to consider if keep yourself compatible with |
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> the previous system is good and what users may need or completely |
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> unnecessary (as for the macos-ppc port IMHO) |
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Problem with the preference you have above is you're considering |
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portage as the primary pkg manager/authority for that system, which it |
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isn't on osx. |
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It's the secondary manager. So it shouldn't be stomping on the toes |
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of what exists already unless absolutely required (shifting these |
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utilities into a seperate directory, and abusing the path or alising |
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as they do already is saner IMHO). |
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Consider the case of backing out portage/gentoo when it's the |
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secondary pkg manager; worst case, a few empty dirs and configs get |
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left. Should still be the same base system it was prior to the gentoo |
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experiment though... |
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~brian |
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