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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages that explicitly DEPEND on sys-apps/sed
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 06:27:32
Message-Id: 20110618082656.0bd6d906@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages that explicitly DEPEND on sys-apps/sed by Mike Frysinger
1 On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:11:36 -0400
2 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > we've already discussed POSIX strictness in the tree multiple times,
5 > and it's been shot down multiple times for good reason. GNU
6 > extensions make life a hell of a lot easier, the majority of people
7 > are developing/testing on such systems (Linux with GNU userland), and
8 > the burden on other ports is trivial if not negligible. let's stop
9 > kicking this horse as we're at the glue stage now. -mike
10
11 OK, right, so where are we heading with this? sys-apps/sed is in system
12 and it's bound to be >=sed-4 and we're sticking with it. So are we
13 going to get rid of it in all the ebuilds that still set that dep?
14
15
16 jer

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