Mike Frysinger wrote:
> wrong. bash and GNU prevail because they provide useful extensions. it may
> be worthwhile to force `find` in the portage environment to be GNU find so we
> can stop wasting time trying to figure out how to rewrite expressions in
> ebuilds (which can be done trivially with GNU) with a limited functionality
> set (such as POSIX).
Shouldn't we do just the opposite? GNU find doesn't exist on all archs
(BSD is an example). There was just an example of GNU extensions being
used on find that broke on FreeBSD. It would be more portable to
*avoid* GNU-only extensions in ebuilds.
-Joe
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