On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:23:55 +0200 "Diego \"Flameeyes\" Petten�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tuesday 29 March 2005 06:58, Aaron Walker wrote: | > FYI Ciaran and Diego, sed is aliased to gsed on BSD. | I know, but this is, imho, an ugly workaround :) | As sed is quite standard, a good solution could be having portage use | sed in the standard way, so that the alias is not needed anymore.
sed is a standard (POSIX/SuS). Unfortunately, a sed which only follows the standard is a pain in the ass to work with because it supports so little, hence the decision that was made a while back to standardise on GNU sed 4. This isn't like find or tar or similar, where switching GNU syntax to POSIX is pretty trivial. There are a *lot* of extensions in GNU sed, and we use them. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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