On 02-10-2007 11:09:21 +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > It also means that their code stands a better chance of working where > bash is not available, but /bin/sh is a POSIX shell still.
I prefer to define that ebuilds (and eclasses) are dealt by GNU bash, which is installed as part of the installation ritual for a Gentoo/X system. I also prefer to define that all common tools ebuilds and eclasses use such as cp, rm, awk, sed, find, xargs are GNU variants, installed as part of the same installation ritual for a Gentoo/X system. With such "definition", a Gentoo/X system without bash cannot exist. What you use outside of the Gentoo build/package manager environment is completely up to you. Rationale: All tools (bash, coreutils, findutils, sed, gawk) can be compiled and installed on any system I know of. Their use is widespread and accepted. Our primary group of people working on ebuilds and eclasses (Gentoo developers) work on a Gentoo system having said tools (and only those) installed, making it a logical choice. I personally fail to see the advantage of using "portable" or "standards compliant" code here over what we have currently. We don't force it down on anyone, we only use it to install a package for you. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
