Re: [gentoo-dev] Is it acceptable to use 'sed' in ebuild scripts?

[Einar Karttunen]

On 05.02.02 07:41 -0500(+0000), Bob Phan wrote:
> Hello, I've just recently created an ebuild for nethack (put it in
> app-games/nethack), however, it's build does not use the standard GNU
> autoconf/automake system, but rather forces you to manually edit a config.h
> file.  Currently, I have just made a patch for X support that is applied when
> you "use X".  I would like to add Qt and GNOME optional support, but using
> patches, it is very difficult to have one without the other, or the context
> will not match (very messy).  I was instead wondering if using 'sed' within
> ebuild scripts was accepted practice, or if I should stick a dependancy for
> sed at the top of the file.

Yes, many ebuilds use sed
find /usr/portage/ -name '*ebuild' -exec grep -l 'sed -e' '{}' ';' 2>/dev/null|cut -d/ -f-5|uniq|wc -l
    300
So I don't think it will be banned in the near future.

> Thanks for any help.  I plan on writing a few more (hopefully more trivial)
> ebuild scripts for any other software I run across.  Also, where should I
> submit the ebuild after it's ready?

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- Einar Karttunen