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Aron Griffis wrote: [Thu Jun 16 2005, 09:32:26PM CDT] |
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> I don't think that switching to g-prefixed commands for GNU utilities |
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> is a good answer. We aren't going to be able to push that upstream, |
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> which means maintaining a lot of patches ourselves. Within our own |
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> developer body, we're going to have an impossible task keeping things |
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> compatible since few people have the knowledge required to write |
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> truly cross-platform scripts. |
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The current situation is that portage sets aliases for tar, make, sed, |
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etcetera that point to the appropriate g* commands on the *BSD systems. |
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I have to admit that I'm actually quite content with that system, since |
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it's not at all intrusive to the Linux folks, and it's minimally |
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intrusive for the *BSDs. It does require that all Gentoo systems have a |
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certain set of GNU utilities, but I'm quite willing to live with that |
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requirement. |
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All that said, if I'm completely missing the point please feel free to |
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tell me. |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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