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On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 17:02 -0600, Joe Peterson wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > wrong. bash and GNU prevail because they provide useful extensions. it may |
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> > be worthwhile to force `find` in the portage environment to be GNU find so we |
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> > can stop wasting time trying to figure out how to rewrite expressions in |
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> > ebuilds (which can be done trivially with GNU) with a limited functionality |
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> > set (such as POSIX). |
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> Shouldn't we do just the opposite? GNU find doesn't exist on all archs |
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> (BSD is an example). There was just an example of GNU extensions being |
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> used on find that broke on FreeBSD. It would be more portable to |
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> *avoid* GNU-only extensions in ebuilds. |
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I would argue that both are hackish workarounds and the correct solution |
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is to get upstream to accept patches so that we shouldn't need to use |
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funky find extensions, BSD or otherwise. |
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Thanks |
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Roy |
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