From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Discussion: alternative compatible utilities
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:26:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42B137D1.5070204@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506160757.19214@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org>
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> Let me explain: on Gentoo/Linux systems, all the base utilities (make, tar,
> sed, etc etc) are GNUish; on Gentoo/FreeBSD they are BSDish; on Gentoo/Darwin
> I don't really know :P
> This limits a bit the user because to use other kind of utilities it must use
> aliases and he can't change, for example, the tar used by portage or by other
> scripts.
>
Surely it would be interesting for developer that want to make sure
their code will build in other userspaces w/out switching os,
and if that won't be so painful, would worth testing it.
Obviously having it now isn't really needed. Thinking about that when
committing/updating ebuild would be good.
( still I do hate bsd core utils implementations but that is just my
opinion =) )
lu
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-16 5:57 [gentoo-dev] Discussion: alternative compatible utilities Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-06-16 8:26 ` Luca Barbato [this message]
2005-06-16 11:18 ` Dan Meltzer
2005-06-17 2:32 ` Aron Griffis
2005-06-17 14:05 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-06-18 11:23 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-06-21 18:45 ` Aron Griffis
2005-07-05 10:37 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-06-21 18:42 ` Aron Griffis
2005-06-21 18:57 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-06-18 3:29 ` Grant Goodyear
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2005-06-16 21:26 Alec Warner
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