From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.105.134.102] (helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DjU3x-0001dV-Qd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 03:32:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5I3V6sm003297; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 03:31:06 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5I3TR6Y010846 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 03:29:27 GMT Received: from adsl-70-241-83-13.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net ([70.241.83.13] helo=localhost) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DjU1d-0004L7-AM for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 03:29:41 +0000 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:29:40 -0500 From: Grant Goodyear To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Discussion: alternative compatible utilities Message-ID: <20050618032940.GE2871@dst.grantgoodyear.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <200506160757.19214@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20050617023226.GA11455@mustard.flatmonk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050617023226.GA11455@mustard.flatmonk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 56c5a6cf-1148-44e8-8bd5-f9161de041d6 X-Archives-Hash: c23a33b0a2103fef7ed61b0d035fc744 --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. -g2boojum- --=20 Grant Goodyear=09 Gentoo Developer g2boojum@gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCs5UkptxxUuD2W3YRAvCqAJ43YkEb1Kv18gXgSysPjhTftFHyJQCfa/q+ KWu5EkZqmMWm2yEe6jocSEY= =Jxk2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list