On 14 Mar 2015 23:14, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> I've long considered the -delete argument to find to be widely supported
> enough that using it in ebuilds should not be a problem. Indeed, a grep
> of the tree shows that it is frequently used, even in eclasses.
> 
> I've just noticed that the man page states that it is not present in
> the BSD version. findutils is now included in @system, even on BSD, but
> the ebuild looks as though it gets installed as gfind rather than find.

ebuilds may assume GNU findutils

> On a related note, should I ever include findutils in DEPEND? I've seen
> some instances of this, occasionally conditional on userland_GNU. On
> the one hand, it should always be present now, given what I said about
> @system above but on the other hand, if it gets installed as gfind then
> there's no point in pulling it in if you're only going to call find.

no
-mike

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