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

[Tod M. Neidt]

On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 01:18, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> 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.
>
As Einar said, many ebuilds use 'sed'.  A particularly good example that
you might want to take a look at is dev-lang/python-2.2-r4.

Hope that helps,

tod