> On Jun 20, 2018, at 7:21 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Jun 20, 2018, at 05:45, George Plymale II wrote:
>
>> Marius Schamschula (Schamschula) pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository macports-ports.
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/35915ffebeb3fc380ca45cdbde23e8ed9a8eb51d
>>
>> The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master by this push:
>>
>> new 35915ff grep: add new variant to install as ggrep
>>
>> 35915ff is described below
>>
>>
>> commit 35915ffebeb3fc380ca45cdbde23e8ed9a8eb51d
>>
>> Author: George Plymale II
>> AuthorDate: Tue Jun 19 23:33:37 2018 -0400
>>
>>
>> grep: add new variant to install as ggrep
>>
>> ---
>> sysutils/grep/Portfile | 6 +++++-
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>
>> +variant g_prefix description {Install the program as ggrep} {
>> + configure.args-append --program-prefix=g
>> +}
>
> Why are we offering this? Selecting this variant would break any port that
> depends on this port. We should strive not to provide users with ways of
> shooting themselves in the foot.
>
Besides this breaking change, it would be good to have this port be consistent
with findutils and coretuils (and maybe the other GNU ports) which install with
—program-prefix=g into $prefix/bin and have the non-g prefix in
$prefix/libexec/gnubin so one can have $prefix/libexec/bin in $PATH and get the
GNU versions if one wants them.
Blair
