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On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 14:45 -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: |
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> Azarah wrote:[Sat Jun 18 2005, 07:23:19AM EDT] |
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> > You might however say install all gnuish tools with the 'g' prefix, |
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> > and then install wrapper scripts/stubs into say /usr/bin/gnu/ or |
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> > /bin/gnu/ (with /usr/bin/gnu/find calling gfind, etc), and portage |
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> > just adds this path as the first path to $PATH ... |
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> > This should cover the fact that aliases might not work in all cases, |
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> > and is bsd specific implementation. |
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> That would actually cause a lot of problems because the PATH would be |
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> inherited by configure and/or make. The result is that programs get |
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> GNU tools when they are built, but BSD tools at run-time. I can only |
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> imagine that causing a lot of confusion. |
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Ahh, right - didn't think about that. Although you realise that the |
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same issues will be present when eselecting something before and after |
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emerge ? |
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Thanks, |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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