Re: [gentoo-dev] find -delete safe to use?

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 14 Mar 2015, James Le Cuirot wrote:

> I've long considered the -delete argument to find to be widely
> supported enough that using it in ebuilds should not be a problem.
> Indeed, a grep of the tree shows that it is frequently used, even in
> eclasses.

> I've just noticed that the man page states that it is not present in
> the BSD version. findutils is now included in @system, even on BSD,
> but the ebuild looks as though it gets installed as gfind rather
> than find.

In EAPI 5, ebuilds can assume GNU findutils version 4.4 or later:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/5/pms.html#x1-12600011.3.1.1

Ulrich