On Wednesday 25 January 2006 10:22, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 January 2006 09:54, Grobian wrote:
> > It appears that some people
> > don't agree with you on changing the assumptions made in the current
> > portage tree.
>
> I'm not going to ask for dropping the assumption, I'm just asking for
> making sure that the assumption is actually backed up with actual presence.
> The sed/gsed naming shouldn't be too hard to achieve and it's already
> common in non-GNU userlands. As we seen for gmake/gawk, it's also a common
> way to make sure for some scripts to use a GNU tool.
>
> > Solution to this is making the GNU tool the default for portage known
> > under its non-g-prefixed name, such that the assumptions made in the
> > tree hold.
>
> This requires (ab)using /usr/lib/portage/bin .. last time you were against
> that, weren't you?

What about a separate directory which is arch specific. Or have it installed 
by an arch package, not by portage itself. Obviously a sed wrapper is not 
needed for gnu systems, but is for bsd based ones. etc.

Paul

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