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On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Roy Marples wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 06:10 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Roy Marples wrote: |
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> > > A common parlance on Slashdot when referring to Microsoft is that |
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> > > monoculture is bad. Forcing bash and GNU tools down everyones throat is |
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> > > no better - it's just replacing one monoculture with another one. |
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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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> BSD find also has the similar extensions, just implemented differently. |
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> > i may also point out that many GNU extensions get codified in POSIX over |
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> > time ... why ? because *they are useful*. |
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> By the same token I should be able to use BSD extensions if said program |
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> also works on Linux. Also, BSD extensions get codified in POSIX also. My |
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> understanding is that a lot of POSIX is based on BSD4. |
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BSD is a second class citizen to GNU here. Gentoo started out as a project |
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targetting a GNU userland under Linux and will continue for quite sometime |
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(forever?) as the majority/core focus. forcing the project to limit itself |
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when there is no gain (yet plenty of pain) for the majority of users is a no |
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brainer: no. |
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-mike |
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