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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] POSIX shell and "portable"
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:15:42
Message-Id: 20071106071249.260309c4@blueyonder.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] POSIX shell and "portable" by Roy Marples
1 On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:18:43 +0000
2 Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o> wrote:
3 > paludis requires tr1-whatever libs
4
5 4.1 ships those, so you don't need to do anything there.
6
7 > Maybe one day Gentoo will have a PM that doesn't require any of that
8 > and is just written in C and sh, using POSIX libc where it can.
9
10 Except it won't, because ebuilds require bash regardless of which
11 package manager is being used. If you want to change that you'll have to
12 rewrite the entire tree.
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh

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