On Wednesday 25 January 2006 03:21, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 02:23, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > If there are any hardcoded calls to /usr/bin/sed, it is reasonable for > > you to ask for them to be fixed. For any others, use a wrapper script. > > I think the wrapper script idea was turned down by someone from portage > IIRC. Anyway it's not exactly the cleanest solution: while it would have an > immediate effect with no work required, it will increas, and not decrease) > the number of "assumption" portage does. I think this is one of the worse > things that can be done at this point.
what kind of "assumptions" ? the kind where we, as ebuild writers, assume the system tools have a lot of features ? assuming `sed` in Gentoo is a GNU/sed is just fine by me -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
