Aron Griffis wrote: [Thu Jun 16 2005, 09:32:26PM CDT] > I don't think that switching to g-prefixed commands for GNU utilities > is a good answer. We aren't going to be able to push that upstream, > which means maintaining a lot of patches ourselves. Within our own > developer body, we're going to have an impossible task keeping things > compatible since few people have the knowledge required to write > truly cross-platform scripts.
The current situation is that portage sets aliases for tar, make, sed, etcetera that point to the appropriate g* commands on the *BSD systems. I have to admit that I'm actually quite content with that system, since it's not at all intrusive to the Linux folks, and it's minimally intrusive for the *BSDs. It does require that all Gentoo systems have a certain set of GNU utilities, but I'm quite willing to live with that requirement. All that said, if I'm completely missing the point please feel free to tell me. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76
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