From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 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 j376X44a000981 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 06:33:04 GMT Received: from terra.polito.it ([130.192.3.81] helo=polito.it) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJQZX-00028J-DN for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 06:32:59 +0000 X-ExtScanner: Niversoft's FindAttachments (free) Received: from [130.192.21.183] ([130.192.21.183] verified) by polito.it (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 19647635 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:33:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4254D421.5070207@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:33:05 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050331 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed References: <200503281806.17832@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20050328183158.06243152@snowdrop> <4248E07E.9040400@gentoo.org> <200503291724.01161@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <1112120203.23361.12.camel@localhost> <42544FE6.7080700@gentoo.org> <20050407062619.GA14728@exodus.wit.org> In-Reply-To: <20050407062619.GA14728@exodus.wit.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 67beb980-c7bf-4c86-99c3-8173f5485a2f X-Archives-Hash: dacda8eab1c0e59638866d5837d094e7 Brian Harring wrote: > Problem with the preference you have above is you're considering > portage as the primary pkg manager/authority for that system, which it > isn't on osx. If a tool is broken you change it, the apple toolchain and probably userspace could enjoy some improvements. > > It's the secondary manager. So it shouldn't be stomping on the toes > of what exists already unless absolutely required (shifting these > utilities into a seperate directory, and abusing the path or alising > as they do already is saner IMHO). That's ok, my idea of replacement could be done just switching the paths and segregating the bogus components. > > Consider the case of backing out portage/gentoo when it's the > secondary pkg manager; worst case, a few empty dirs and configs get > left. Should still be the same base system it was prior to the gentoo > experiment though... I think everybody agrees about that. > ~brian > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list