Hello!

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:12:21AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote:
>On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:03:01PM -0300, Andr?s Delfino wrote:
>| >And what/who needs this?

>| Sorry, but, is that question relevant? I mean, shoudn't the ports tree
>| have all the programs it can? :S

>I don't think that's the goal of the OpenBSD portstree. The portstree
>(or better, packaging system) should be an easy to use interface to
>add functionality to OpenBSD that is missing from the base
>installation. If GNU Sed doesn't add anything that the default sed(1)
>is missing (I don't know, I think this is what Peter is asking), why
>should it be added to the tree ?

There are sed scripts out there that are GNU sed specific. Alas.

But GNU sed has a few features that sed(1) doesn't have.

Kind regards,

Hannah.

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