On 07-10-2007 10:19:43 -0600, Joe Peterson wrote: > So there are a couple of options, as I see it: > > 1) Limit tool options to those that are common to all tool variants > 2) Port a standard (i.e. GNU) set of tools to all platforms > 3) Force all gentoo ports to use GNU userland > > I think we'd all agree that #3 is too restrictive. For example, g/fbsd > uses BSD's userland (like vanilla FreeBSD does), and making it GNU would > be a pretty major change.
No, it is not. The problem IMHO is in the "user" userland and the "portage" userland are being seen as one. I think it would be very easy to install all GNU equivalents of tools on BSD in some separate dir, put it in portage's DEFAULT_PATH before /bin and /usr/bin and all would work perfectly well from the ebuild/eclass perspective. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
