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 1DknoS-0005mQ-5V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:49:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5LImTIF025368; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:48:29 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 j5LIkpCw020804 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:46:51 GMT Received: from agriffis by smtp.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DknmE-0004Sj-Bp for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:47:14 +0000 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:45:42 -0400 X-OfflineIMAP-2065222844-64676f73656e64-494e424f582e4f7574626f78: 1119379635-0529909614332-v4.0.8 From: Aron Griffis To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Discussion: alternative compatible utilities Message-ID: <20050621184542.GK9452@kaf.zko.hp.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <200506160757.19214@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20050617023226.GA11455@mustard.flatmonk> <200506171605.39304@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <1119093799.11254.46.camel@lycan.lan> 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="CblX+4bnyfN0pR09" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1119093799.11254.46.camel@lycan.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 0ce8c02e-e692-4d91-85f7-896d5fa98162 X-Archives-Hash: 87f489a0b146496678b11d7162258be9 --CblX+4bnyfN0pR09 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 ... >=20 > 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. Regards, Aron -- Aron Griffis Gentoo Linux Developer --CblX+4bnyfN0pR09 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCuGBVJrHF4yAQTrARAiobAJsHm7KSIr7yAXJFfus8f/ZPKwEZZACeNhCh XpAGjHQ4cmVYAg3UpL9/xZI= =83qI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CblX+4bnyfN0pR09-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list