On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:08:54PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > Stephen Bennett wrote: > > > > Any comments? Suggestions, flames? (Except from ciaranm, of course...) > I'd like to avoid gsed symlinks as much as possible. > > If GNU sed is better than the one provided by the system and the > provided one doesn't have other extensions not covered by GNU sed then > the simplest and better solution is replace the native with the improved. > > on other cases you may need to consider if keep yourself compatible with > the previous system is good and what users may need or completely > unnecessary (as for the macos-ppc port IMHO) Problem with the preference you have above is you're considering portage as the primary pkg manager/authority for that system, which it isn't on osx.
It's the secondary manager. So it shouldn't be stomping on the toes of what exists already unless absolutely required (shifting these utilities into a seperate directory, and abusing the path or alising as they do already is saner IMHO). Consider the case of backing out portage/gentoo when it's the secondary pkg manager; worst case, a few empty dirs and configs get left. Should still be the same base system it was prior to the gentoo experiment though... ~brian -- [email protected] mailing list
