On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 06:54:21PM +0500, Anna wrote: > On 2022-05-31 07:23, Ionen Wolkens wrote: > > Implementation / available wrappers / usefulness still up for debate, > > but without further comments I consider this ready (albeit first time > > touching / making an eclass, so I could be overlooking simple things). > > Also partly uses >=bash-4.4, so EAPI-7 is not considered. > > From ebuild(5): > > Beginning with EAPI 4, the dosed helper no longer exists > > Ebuilds should call sed(1) directly (and assume that it is GNU > > sed). > > What were the reasons to remove this helper? Do they still apply to esed > as an eclass?
Haven't looked up exact history, but afaik dosed existed because of sed formerly not having -i. And editing files in-place was tedious in ebuilds with cp/mv. With -i becoming commonplace (PMS also requires GNU sed) it lost its purpose beside just allowing to skip -i/||die. esed does bring back the -i/die skipping but that's not its inherent purpose and GNU sed currently does not support a mean to report if changes occurred (if this happens, esed may well become obsolete too). -- ionen
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