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I think the time is mature to ask for another step of Gentoo/ALT |
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improvement ;) |
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Currently ebuilds uses a sed syntax that's mostly GNU sed 4 compatible, but |
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incompatible with BSD sed for instance. This is usually fine as we aliases |
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sed to gsed in our bashrc so that the problem in sed calls is removed. |
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The main problem happen with sed when called by xargs or by find, as that |
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ignores the aliases set in bashrc. |
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What I'd like to ask is, if possible, to start using gsed instead, that's |
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present on both GNU and other userlands with current stable version of sed |
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(4.1.4; ppc-macos has no problem as the 4.0.9 version uses gsed anyway). |
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It might require to change the dependency over >=sys-apps/sed-4.1.4, but that |
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would help making portage a bit cleaner IMHO (instead of relying on sed being |
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the executable you need, it make sure you're using a GNU sed version) and |
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solves quite a few headaches for us. |
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Comments about this? (Please don't tell me to do a GLEP about this) |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ |
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Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE |
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