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

[Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>]

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Aron Griffis wrote: [Thu Jun 16 2005, 09:32:26PM CDT]
> I don't think that switching to g-prefixed commands for GNU utilities
> is a good answer.  We aren't going to be able to push that upstream,
> which means maintaining a lot of patches ourselves.  Within our own
> developer body, we're going to have an impossible task keeping things
> compatible since few people have the knowledge required to write
> truly cross-platform scripts.

The current situation is that portage sets aliases for tar, make, sed,
etcetera that point to the appropriate g* commands on the *BSD systems.
I have to admit that I'm actually quite content with that system, since
it's not at all intrusive to the Linux folks, and it's minimally
intrusive for the *BSDs.  It does require that all Gentoo systems have a
certain set of GNU utilities, but I'm quite willing to live with that
requirement.

All that said, if I'm completely missing the point please feel free to
tell me.

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