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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:23:55 +0200 "Diego \"Flameeyes\" Pettenò" |
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<flameeyes@×××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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| On Tuesday 29 March 2005 06:58, Aaron Walker wrote: |
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| > FYI Ciaran and Diego, sed is aliased to gsed on BSD. |
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| I know, but this is, imho, an ugly workaround :) |
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| As sed is quite standard, a good solution could be having portage use |
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| sed in the standard way, so that the alias is not needed anymore. |
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sed is a standard (POSIX/SuS). Unfortunately, a sed which only follows |
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the standard is a pain in the ass to work with because it supports so |
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little, hence the decision that was made a while back to standardise on |
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GNU sed 4. |
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This isn't like find or tar or similar, where switching GNU syntax to |
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POSIX is pretty trivial. There are a *lot* of extensions in GNU sed, and |
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we use them. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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