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On Thursday, June 16, 2011 22:53:23 Steven J Long wrote: |
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> With regard to having a slimmed-down @system it might appear to make sense |
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> to look at moving to only allowing POSIX options, testing perhaps with |
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> sys-apps/minised[2] (assuming we'd have a virtual in @system) which I |
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> haven't tried. AIUI however there's far too many sed GNUisms to go down |
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> that road. |
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we've already discussed POSIX strictness in the tree multiple times, and it's |
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been shot down multiple times for good reason. GNU extensions make life a |
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hell of a lot easier, the majority of people are developing/testing on such |
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systems (Linux with GNU userland), and the burden on other ports is trivial if |
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not negligible. let's stop kicking this horse as we're at the glue stage now. |
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-mike |
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