On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 14:45 -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: > Azarah wrote:[Sat Jun 18 2005, 07:23:19AM EDT] > > You might however say install all gnuish tools with the 'g' prefix, > > and then install wrapper scripts/stubs into say /usr/bin/gnu/ or > > /bin/gnu/ (with /usr/bin/gnu/find calling gfind, etc), and portage > > just adds this path as the first path to $PATH ... > > > > This should cover the fact that aliases might not work in all cases, > > and is bsd specific implementation. > > That would actually cause a lot of problems because the PATH would be > inherited by configure and/or make. The result is that programs get > GNU tools when they are built, but BSD tools at run-time. I can only > imagine that causing a lot of confusion. >
Ahh, right - didn't think about that. Although you realise that the same issues will be present when eselecting something before and after emerge ? Thanks, -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa
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