Re: [gentoo-dev] Discussion: alternative compatible utilities

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 14:45 -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> Azarah wrote:[Sat Jun 18 2005, 07:23:19AM EDT]
> > You might however say install all gnuish tools with the 'g' prefix,
> > and then install wrapper scripts/stubs into say /usr/bin/gnu/ or
> > /bin/gnu/ (with /usr/bin/gnu/find calling gfind, etc), and portage
> > just adds this path as the first path to $PATH ...
> > 
> > This should cover the fact that aliases might not work in all cases,
> > and is bsd specific implementation.
> 
> That would actually cause a lot of problems because the PATH would be
> inherited by configure and/or make.  The result is that programs get
> GNU tools when they are built, but BSD tools at run-time.  I can only
> imagine that causing a lot of confusion.
> 

Ahh, right - didn't think about that.  Although you realise that the
same issues will be present when eselecting something before and after
emerge ?


Thanks,

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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa


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