On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Roy Marples wrote: > 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.
BSD is a second class citizen to GNU here. Gentoo started out as a project targetting a GNU userland under Linux and will continue for quite sometime (forever?) as the majority/core focus. forcing the project to limit itself when there is no gain (yet plenty of pain) for the majority of users is a no brainer: no. -mike
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