Re: [gentoo-pms] Mention xargs?

[Ralph Sennhauser <sera@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:56:02 +0200
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> When preparing the list of EAPI 5 features for the upcoming council
> meeting, I noticed that the eapi-5 branch mentions only GNU find [1]
> whereas the corresponding bug mentions both find and xargs [2].
> 
> Shouldn't we mention xargs, too?

Usually I see xargs used as 'find <somestuff> | xargs <dosomething>'
which can easily be handled by find alone. So, not sure we want to
mandate xargs at all.

> 
> Ulrich
> 
> [1]
> <http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commit;h=472690942e14f63f1b1f3a5681976a59539ea3f8>
> [2] <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384157#c2>
> 
> From f9741fb09b19bb0cf232254368617c31f3c22898 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Ulrich=20M=C3=BCller?= <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:55:51 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Require xargs in addition to find.
> 
> ---
>  ebuild-env-commands.tex |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ebuild-env-commands.tex b/ebuild-env-commands.tex
> index 1129fa6..d24fc81 100644
> --- a/ebuild-env-commands.tex
> +++ b/ebuild-env-commands.tex
> @@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ The following commands must always be available in
> the ebuild environment: \item \t{sed} must be available, and must
> support all forms of invocations valid for GNU sed version 4 or later.
>  \item \t{patch} must be available, and must support all inputs valid
> for GNU patch. -\item \t{find} must be available, and must support
> all forms of invocations valid for GNU find
> -    version 4.4 or later. Only for EAPIs listed in
> table~\ref{tab:system-commands-table} as +\item \t{find} and
> \t{xargs} must be available, and must support all forms of
> invocations valid for
> +    GNU find version 4.4 or later. Only for EAPIs listed in
> table~\ref{tab:system-commands-table} as requiring GNU find.
> \featurelabel{gnu-find} \end{compactitem}
>