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 9C2411381F4 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 06:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96BF5E0665; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 06:07:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E95DE0665 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 06:07:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id q7E67FrL008547 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:07:15 +0200 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q7E67Fb6027023; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:07:15 +0200 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q7E67F6x027021; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:07:15 +0200 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 Message-ID: <20521.60179.246986.493041@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:07:15 +0200 To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Mention xargs? In-Reply-To: <20120812120841.043b6ef1@sera-17.lan> References: <20519.28578.237424.284438@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20120812120841.043b6ef1@sera-17.lan> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 23.4.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller X-Archives-Salt: aeb0a879-548e-42f9-a96c-1a261316b8b0 X-Archives-Hash: 607d2291434e1d61c359ae7ae3d844f9 >>>>> 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