On 03-10-2007 09:40:02 +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > > Although, I have to ask: what is so terrible about installing GNU findutils? > > Personally I'd just build in a chroot if the pollution were that bad. > > (AFAICT the whole point of GNU stuff is to have a consistent Free > > foundation. But like you said, that's next month ;P) > > There's the fact it doesn't actually build on BSD.
[horus:/export/scratch/gentoo] % which find /export/scratch/gentoo/tmp/usr/bin/find [horus:/export/scratch/gentoo] % find --version GNU find version 4.2.27 Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION [horus:/export/scratch/gentoo] % uname -a FreeBSD horus 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 i386 Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron FreeBSD -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
