Re: [gentoo-pms] Mention xargs?

[Ralph Sennhauser <sera@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:07:15 +0200
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> >>>>> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Ralph Sennhauser 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.
> 
> Well, xargs is mandated by POSIX, so it will be present in the system
> anyway. So we'd better make sure that the implementations of find and
> xargs match.
> 
> This would also agree with current practice. For example, the
> following is done in profiles/default/bsd/fbsd/profile.bashrc:
> 
>    type -P gfind > /dev/null && alias find=gfind
>    type -P gxargs > /dev/null && alias xargs=gxargs
> 
> Another small issue, the package isn't named "find" but "findutils":
> <http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commit;h=6a95dae3fa6b8a6307f5d02c09dc550f1fbe97f2>
> 
> Ulrich
> 

I see where you are coming from, however, the first thing that comes to
mind is, there should be a paragraph in the devmanual "useless use of
xargs" as there is for cat.

Ralph