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>>>>> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: |
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>> When preparing the list of EAPI 5 features for the upcoming council |
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>> meeting, I noticed that the eapi-5 branch mentions only GNU find |
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>> [1] whereas the corresponding bug mentions both find and xargs [2]. |
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>> Shouldn't we mention xargs, too? |
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> Usually I see xargs used as 'find <somestuff> | xargs <dosomething>' |
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> which can easily be handled by find alone. So, not sure we want to |
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> mandate xargs at all. |
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Well, xargs is mandated by POSIX, so it will be present in the system |
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anyway. So we'd better make sure that the implementations of find and |
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xargs match. |
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This would also agree with current practice. For example, the |
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following is done in profiles/default/bsd/fbsd/profile.bashrc: |
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type -P gfind > /dev/null && alias find=gfind |
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type -P gxargs > /dev/null && alias xargs=gxargs |
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Another small issue, the package isn't named "find" but "findutils": |
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<http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commit;h=6a95dae3fa6b8a6307f5d02c09dc550f1fbe97f2> |
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Ulrich |
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