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On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 06:49 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> BSD is a second class citizen to GNU here. Gentoo started out as a project |
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> targetting a GNU userland under Linux and will continue for quite sometime |
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> (forever?) as the majority/core focus. forcing the project to limit itself |
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> when there is no gain (yet plenty of pain) for the majority of users is a no |
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> brainer: no. |
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Well, let me be the first to stand for equal rights then! |
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Anyway, this was about changing the portage tree syntax from bash to |
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posix shell, not gnu vs bsd vs userland tools. The arguments are not the |
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same as bash supports posix shell whereas gnu tools don't support bsd |
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extensions and bsd tools don't support gnu extensions. |
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I say that for the most part, there should be no technical reason why |
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ebuilds cannot be in posix shell whilst being readable and maintainable. |
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If portage or another package manager wishes to uses bash to parse |
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ebuilds and eclasses, more power to them! I won't stop that. I just want |
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the ability for other shells to do the same. It isn't hard, and you |
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don't need to be a rocket scientist. It's not an overnight change, but a |
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gradual change. |
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Thanks |
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Roy |
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