On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:39 PM, Xen <l...@xenhideout.nl> wrote: > Julian Andres Klode schreef op 14-11-2017 8:50: > > * You should not depend on grep, sed, coreutils, they are Essential. >> > > Can I ask what this means? > > I actually assume that these dependencies are not *required*, not that you > can't use the tools.
Required: yes. The highest priority. sysvinit was Required: yes until systemd came along https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#priorities Speaking of, I can't use 'apt-get indextargets' from shell and had to rewrite in ruby, because sed doesn't not support lazy matching, and I don't know how else to match NOT \n\n. (it also doesn't seem to support multiples of submatches.) Old regular expression implementations are showing their age (not to mention perl's non-regular features).
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