Re: [gentoo-pms] Mention xargs?

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

>>>>> 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