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On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 06:10 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Roy Marples wrote: |
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> > A common parlance on Slashdot when referring to Microsoft is that |
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> > monoculture is bad. Forcing bash and GNU tools down everyones throat is |
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> > no better - it's just replacing one monoculture with another one. |
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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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BSD find also has the similar extensions, just implemented differently. |
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> i may also point out that many GNU extensions get codified in POSIX over |
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> time ... why ? because *they are useful*. |
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By the same token I should be able to use BSD extensions if said program |
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also works on Linux. Also, BSD extensions get codified in POSIX also. My |
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understanding is that a lot of POSIX is based on BSD4. |
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Roy |
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