From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] POSIX shell and "portable"
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 08:03:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071106080358.415dcd05@blueyonder.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1194334820.2887.7.camel@uberpc.marples.name>
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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:40:20 +0000
Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 07:12 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Except it won't, because ebuilds require bash regardless of which
> > package manager is being used. If you want to change that you'll
> > have to rewrite the entire tree.
>
> Az once said near enough the same thing about baselayout. And that's
> your view, your entitled to it, but it is not my view. Change a little
> bit here, a little bit there. Slowly does it.
It's not a view. It's a simple fact.
> Yes, I know that a fair chunk of the tree will need a re-write, just
> in the same way that the init scripts got a re-write. It will take
> time, it will not happen magically over night. To think overwise is
> foolish :)
How many lines of code are in baselayout? How many in the tree?
Pushing for non-bash for ebuilds is pointless. The cost of using bash is
tiny; the cost of not using bash is huge.
--
Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-06 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-02 13:44 [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2007-11-02 14:04 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 14:27 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2007-11-02 14:52 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 14:59 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-02 15:30 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 15:38 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-02 15:48 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 15:58 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-02 16:10 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 16:30 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-11-02 16:52 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 17:17 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-11-02 17:35 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-03 0:19 ` [gentoo-dev] POSIX shell and "portable" Fabian Groffen
2007-11-03 0:47 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-05 9:22 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2007-11-05 10:13 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-05 13:21 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2007-11-05 20:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-05 23:18 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-06 7:12 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-06 7:40 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-06 8:03 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2007-11-06 8:25 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-06 9:04 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2007-11-05 20:32 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-05 20:55 ` Fabian Groffen
2007-11-05 22:27 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-03 0:57 ` Natanael copa
2007-11-03 1:06 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-03 16:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-11-03 1:10 ` [gentoo-dev] " Roy Marples
[not found] ` <b41005390711022225i4f30bb01jbf5a040c60c4b088@mail.gmail.com>
2007-11-03 5:26 ` Fwd: [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags Alec Warner
2007-11-03 21:57 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-04 10:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-11-04 21:54 ` Alec Warner
2007-11-06 11:50 ` Steve Long
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