Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 14:31:33 +0200 "Diego \"Flameeyes\" Pettenò"
<flameeyes@users.berlios.de> wrote:
| On Thursday 07 April 2005 14:01, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > The OS X sed is broken. Or, at least, it is not a satisfactory
| > provider of sed-4, which is what we DEPEND upon.
| Well osx's sed is just posix sed, exactly the same of bsd sed.
| We depends on gsed for things which, imho, could be done using posix
| sed. Mainly the position of -i param, or the douple -e (which could be
| merged into  a single expression).
| Probably both osx sed and bsd sed could be used without a bit of a
| trouble for  portage purposes, with some tweaks here and there.

OSX sed does not do -i at all. Read up on the original "why OSX cannot
PROVIDE sed-4" discussion.

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