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 1IeOUp-0005mn-11 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:16:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9755sOl015933; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 05:05:54 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 l9753x2R013570 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 05:03:59 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB9E64E1F for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 05:03:58 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: sh versionator.eclass Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 01:03:56 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200710012259.40589.uberlord@gentoo.org> <200710020610.35301.vapier@gentoo.org> <4702CDFF.6010607@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4702CDFF.6010607@gentoo.org> 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="nextPart1407327.2l9trHk0Dp"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200710070103.57468.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 18bdab5e-b38c-431d-ba7a-fc7c12ff6ca2 X-Archives-Hash: 3409c77679ba95c3bc2246a9b0e44357 --nextPart1407327.2l9trHk0Dp Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Joe Peterson wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > wrong. bash and GNU prevail because they provide useful extensions. it > > may be worthwhile to force `find` in the portage environment to be GNU > > find so we can stop wasting time trying to figure out how to rewrite > > expressions in ebuilds (which can be done trivially with GNU) with a > > limited functionality set (such as POSIX). > > Shouldn't we do just the opposite? GNU find doesn't exist on all archs > (BSD is an example). There was just an example of GNU extensions being > used on find that broke on FreeBSD. It would be more portable to > *avoid* GNU-only extensions in ebuilds. as mentioned, GNU is the main bread and butter of Gentoo. forcing the=20 majority of people to go pure POSIX in the face of GNU extensions that make= =20 life easier is wrong. so the minority gets screwed, that's life. especial= ly=20 considering it's trivial for the minority to conform. =2Dmike --nextPart1407327.2l9trHk0Dp 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) iQIVAwUARwhovUFjO5/oN/WBAQKGWg/9EndzSgs1d407xal+AdyRnIt2KG2OGN5+ FA1yzEsfghA9ch7YVwR0AFgU1kgbn3JpVUb3oepCe6W17R8b2pxjn0Kv5fnEZHzt pJNUmGrQdwOmtrXBK6mwnwyQseiqYRDoEsOfTP42E2xcveRW0R2o2dg4S6HHqM6R hQNW5qOKifLegGW/Xl1huq/lHBjWgaSvvlLEpvthVt2jTfyicviXm9KhsR76J6Rh Di+jpCZpNTlt/qxyV1FExj8fHoQwIBy5Zk4e6C/p2QvIW0jHtCplW1o1ZT3xs+4g Wmubzw5YQjU97JFL6AxtHpQbb0toVHTL9AgPvO1nmNFLoeD09umDI+2bOFbOJJOb 00m2jpZZHPaAKozEkjvSVRdL29YdyVQX6XzS5URVK2Td+W/kL9tdcG9csJ4X9PsP tsKC4wrVGzmT3rG2xnwvuBAHOJkHM/C4NeNeoUkptmGSHc+OT1ITDlE50SrjICf0 xZO66eAJh2oCDirGIgjovNy+sfur04lWzsvdFxHoB6v6ewio4vAFhy6Mo+yvcoH0 956+psjv8vu+pGQpBT4abwdje2E6ynL5xtbRqGYYlX/8IoE31tIEeZxSFiF9Q0wl COR3uV6UqIVAVjGaKiUkbQTAwNtngmjydN4XbbRkU8j8/9EXpP/GSkujsvEDBu65 C9JtyXO6bCQ= =efVR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1407327.2l9trHk0Dp-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list