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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:14:49
Message-Id: 20050407131523.GG14728@exodus.wit.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:51:44PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 07:46:43 -0500 Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
3 > wrote:
4 > | Frankly, it nukes the usefulness of gentoo macos/osx if portage just
5 > | stomps whatever the hell it wants.
6 > | This is why collision-protect is on by default after all.
7 >
8 > Hopefully that nonsense will be going away at some point...
9 Nonsense being what, the notion of replacing utilites, gentoo/osx,
10 collision-protect, or just a general "please shut up" snipe? :)
11
12 And yes, I'm aware of the previous sed discussion. This re-flamed
13 due to the question raised of just flat out replacing sed instead
14 of suffering gsed type hacks, which isn't viable as people have
15 pointed out.
16 ~brian
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Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>