On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Roy Marples wrote: > A common parlance on Slashdot when referring to Microsoft is that > monoculture is bad. Forcing bash and GNU tools down everyones throat is > no better - it's just replacing one monoculture with another one.
wrong. bash and GNU prevail because they provide useful extensions. it may be worthwhile to force `find` in the portage environment to be GNU find so we can stop wasting time trying to figure out how to rewrite expressions in ebuilds (which can be done trivially with GNU) with a limited functionality set (such as POSIX). i may also point out that many GNU extensions get codified in POSIX over time ... why ? because *they are useful*. -mike
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