From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Icewq-0000AF-NN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:25:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l92AFEne027482; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:15:14 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l92AAa98019404 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:10:37 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C818D64FB1 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:10:35 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: sh versionator.eclass Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 06:10:34 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200710012259.40589.uberlord@gentoo.org> <20071002092246.GK24867@gentoo.org> <1191317845.6284.21.camel@uberlaptop.marples.name> In-Reply-To: <1191317845.6284.21.camel@uberlaptop.marples.name> 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; boundary="nextPart2122684.s0N3vJ68i9"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200710020610.35301.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: b18e1240-9c88-4888-8a62-0d1fa0deef10 X-Archives-Hash: 148f3cb6c27860bf0846b7d440806a05 --nextPart2122684.s0N3vJ68i9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Roy Marples wrote: > A common parlance on Slashdot when referring to Microsoft is that > monoculture is bad. Forcing bash and GNU tools down everyones throat is > no better - it's just replacing one monoculture with another one. wrong. bash and GNU prevail because they provide useful extensions. it ma= y=20 be worthwhile to force `find` in the portage environment to be GNU find so = we=20 can stop wasting time trying to figure out how to rewrite expressions in=20 ebuilds (which can be done trivially with GNU) with a limited functionality= =20 set (such as POSIX). i may also point out that many GNU extensions get codified in POSIX over=20 time ... why ? because *they are useful*. =2Dmike --nextPart2122684.s0N3vJ68i9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUARwIZG0FjO5/oN/WBAQJ7TxAAiRL40VLd3coz/Rr2tKggfJVLNCqcf6eC kYNL4hH1aDd2+a69kZ6kxbx9D3PqaL8QaIsCtpcXlPFxrOnmzHxHUli+ur1/ju5w gtP3rtEKzRVUYrt4RhcYgkEzzNED49HpY2FEs0TECAcTm1LW9ySFSRNwC7kd/ztK 1LLtnaqjOp89A/JDlNr5mB6ocl4cloAbO0O2CdwsaUcGgzEwYcNMFxyM3/HtoD/Z SfsKFH2UzQ/uid2/7RS7ankZibBie42BxdKaG8if+P1CU1sLX2ShcsVulKnIHA3C PxPTw6dRmpMNEHdcdmZ7BaA2ZgYIXCV0JJDnMi+NOiSpXuPjmz5m9WuieV+/nPMk Z7n9etnI2uM+m1lmG4JKKTr4IRSZD1TWrQ+VYnnJ8VgOWPzxe4PruCaruq+E6FpL tLKNGW0oqUkubqMV+mAPlZpmaEi3+d6savHSwKsyqfclhEDIZPd7pCR7ZxqVjEV5 OSH9qfFt+FT5tnECitHWjtUSmjTZQk7NjnQGa1GRpP0335W/tQ7oX0U7QCxh7JoC Ntc34x9JYkMQ1AxW98fToyPD2U0lzqX9UkUxip05Ksf3vrrdAaGzKvennT3ga0EW EAE0Dha2oWeHzyg3PP7pB47EJ9pshpdp+ik41sFYJVJJluoweu+POQZvZGSf/fde P/WesNAbZBw= =apmQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2122684.s0N3vJ68i9-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list