On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 06:10 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > 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).
BSD find also has the similar extensions, just implemented differently. > > i may also point out that many GNU extensions get codified in POSIX over > time ... why ? because *they are useful*. By the same token I should be able to use BSD extensions if said program also works on Linux. Also, BSD extensions get codified in POSIX also. My understanding is that a lot of POSIX is based on BSD4. Roy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
