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Azarah wrote:[Sat Jun 18 2005, 07:23:19AM EDT] |
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> You might however say install all gnuish tools with the 'g' prefix, |
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> and then install wrapper scripts/stubs into say /usr/bin/gnu/ or |
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> /bin/gnu/ (with /usr/bin/gnu/find calling gfind, etc), and portage |
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> just adds this path as the first path to $PATH ... |
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> This should cover the fact that aliases might not work in all cases, |
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> and is bsd specific implementation. |
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That would actually cause a lot of problems because the PATH would be |
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inherited by configure and/or make. The result is that programs get |
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GNU tools when they are built, but BSD tools at run-time. I can only |
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imagine that causing a lot of confusion. |
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Regards, |
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Aron |
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Aron Griffis |
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