On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 06:06:17PM +0200, Diego Flameeyes Pettenà wrote: > Hi, Hi :)
> 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. It looks like perl is in the base system. Take a look into /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages: *dev-lang/perl > A good replacement for it is using sed -i -e expression file, which is the > same thing. > > Please also note that using a sintax like that: > > sed -e expression file file file -i > > just works on gsed, but doesn't work with other sed implementations (bsdish, > macos, solaris, ...). -i must be put before any -e! > > Please update the erroneous ebuild, as these could make problems when > gentoo/non-linux-os . > But I generally agree that it's not necessary to use perl where sed is sufficient. :) -- Jan Brinkmann : Gentoo Developer (Amd64, Java, Sound, Video) Email: luckyduck (at) gentoo.org Web: http://the-luckyduck.de GPG: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 0xE38C3BBF
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