Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-misc/note: ChangeLog note-1.3.3.ebuild

[Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 01:01 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 09:56 Mon 15 Oct     , Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > Written like this u certainly can't since the output of the find expression is
> > subjected to word splitting before u gets set. Hence this will fail if ${D}
> > contains spaces even if ${u} gets quoted. The best way to solve this is to use
> > find ... -print0 | xargs -0 rm. Unfortunately that solution means using GNU
> > extensions that I'm not sure are guaranteed to be available in the ebuild
> > environment. If they aren't maybe they should be.
> 
> Cool, I hadn't dealt with this before. Thanks for pointing that out! We 
> were just talking about whether to require GNU find the other day, but I 
> don't recall the conclusion. Does anyone else?

I think most people wanted to force all GNU tools.
So once it's all keyworded BSD and installed outside of our normal $PATH
or g prefixed (gfind, gsed, etc) then you can start
DEPEND="your-find-of-choice" and use it in the ebuild.

But we're not there yet so lets use something that all platforms
support. Like say find's -delete action which should fit the bill quite
nicely.

Thanks

Roy

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