From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222871381F4 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:09:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C76B6E07CF; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:09:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C50AE07CF for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:09:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sera-17.lan (98-56.62-81.cust.bluewin.ch [81.62.56.98]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: sera) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7ED441B4001 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:08:57 +0200 From: Ralph Sennhauser To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Mention xargs? Message-ID: <20120818010857.3a5310dc@sera-17.lan> In-Reply-To: <20521.60179.246986.493041@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <20519.28578.237424.284438@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20120812120841.043b6ef1@sera-17.lan> <20521.60179.246986.493041@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Organization: Gentoo Linux X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3c6dbfac-537b-4834-9fbd-97e7eaf54431 X-Archives-Hash: af0165c051e9f8f044c492eacc15c7b0 On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:07:15 +0200 Ulrich Mueller 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 | xargs ' > > 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": > > > 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