On 18:06 Mon 28 Mar , Diego Flameeyes Petten? wrote: > Hi, > as I've already pointed out to Brad about mozilla-firefox new ebuild, there > are a few ebuilds in which, for simple regexp replaces, perl is used with > sintax perl -pi -e expression file. > As perl is not in the core packages, using this requires adding perl to the > buildtime dependency of the package. This is anyway an useless dependency as > it isn't needed for something like that. > A good replacement for it is using sed -i -e expression file, which is the > same thing. >
As of a couple of days ago, these are the packages which had ebuilds using perl -pi -e: vmware-workstation openoffice-bin openoffice-ximian-bin openoffice-ximian openoffice gnome-pilot sun-jdk PerlQt gtk-perl-glade gtk-perl rhide netcomics-cvs apache mod_authenticache mod_xslt magic pam mozilla-firefox mozilla For individual ebuilds go to http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh2045/perls and the above list is available at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh2045/perls2 ----- djm -- [email protected] mailing list
