Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Let me explain: on Gentoo/Linux systems, all the base utilities (make, tar, > sed, etc etc) are GNUish; on Gentoo/FreeBSD they are BSDish; on Gentoo/Darwin > I don't really know :P > This limits a bit the user because to use other kind of utilities it must use > aliases and he can't change, for example, the tar used by portage or by other > scripts. >
Surely it would be interesting for developer that want to make sure their code will build in other userspaces w/out switching os, and if that won't be so painful, would worth testing it. Obviously having it now isn't really needed. Thinking about that when committing/updating ebuild would be good. ( still I do hate bsd core utils implementations but that is just my opinion =) ) lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
