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On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 06:06:17PM +0200, Diego Flameeyes Pettenò wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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Hi :) |
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> As perl is not in the core packages, using this requires adding perl to the |
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> buildtime dependency of the package. This is anyway an useless dependency as |
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> it isn't needed for something like that. |
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It looks like perl is in the base system. Take a look into |
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/usr/portage/profiles/base/packages: |
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*dev-lang/perl |
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> A good replacement for it is using sed -i -e expression file, which is the |
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> same thing. |
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> Please also note that using a sintax like that: |
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> sed -e expression file file file -i |
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> just works on gsed, but doesn't work with other sed implementations (bsdish, |
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> macos, solaris, ...). -i must be put before any -e! |
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> Please update the erroneous ebuild, as these could make problems when |
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> gentoo/non-linux-os . |
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But I generally agree that it's not necessary to use perl where sed |
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is sufficient. :) |
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