From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.105.134.102] (helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dipmn-0005hA-Pp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:31:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5G8TS2a011327; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:29:28 GMT Received: from smtp0.libero.it (smtp0.libero.it [193.70.192.33]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5G8QJR8025857 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:26:19 GMT Received: from localhost (172.16.1.83) by smtp0.libero.it (7.2.060.1) id 42AEDEE60006A306 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:27:17 +0200 Received: from [192.168.0.1] (151.44.63.152) by smtp1.libero.it (7.0.027-DD01) id 41BF654A0851CE16 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:27:02 +0200 Message-ID: <42B137D1.5070204@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:26:57 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050518 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@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Discussion: alternative compatible utilities References: <200506160757.19214@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> In-Reply-To: <200506160757.19214@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at libero.it serv4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j5G8TS41011327 X-Archives-Salt: 6aea5645-855f-4cc9-9d67-e19020268498 X-Archives-Hash: c51b584ac79d953ab63474adb217f7d6 Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=F2 wrote: > Let me explain: on Gentoo/Linux systems, all the base utilities (make, = tar,=20 > sed, etc etc) are GNUish; on Gentoo/FreeBSD they are BSDish; on Gentoo/= Darwin=20 > I don't really know :P > This limits a bit the user because to use other kind of utilities it mu= st use=20 > aliases and he can't change, for example, the tar used by portage or by= other=20 > scripts. >=20 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 =3D) ) lu --=20 Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list