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Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: |
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> Let me explain: on Gentoo/Linux systems, all the base utilities (make, tar, |
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> sed, etc etc) are GNUish; on Gentoo/FreeBSD they are BSDish; on Gentoo/Darwin |
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> I don't really know :P |
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> This limits a bit the user because to use other kind of utilities it must use |
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> aliases and he can't change, for example, the tar used by portage or by other |
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> scripts. |
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Surely it would be interesting for developer that want to make sure |
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their code will build in other userspaces w/out switching os, |
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and if that won't be so painful, would worth testing it. |
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Obviously having it now isn't really needed. Thinking about that when |
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committing/updating ebuild would be good. |
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( still I do hate bsd core utils implementations but that is just my |
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opinion =) ) |
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lu |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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