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Re: bin/38327: uu{en,de}code - any reason to use non-portable [sg]etprogname?



>  On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
 >> There is no reason to use __progname or argv[0] or anything similar in
 >> uu{en,de}code. Constant strings "uuencode" and "uudecode" are enough
 >> because they are used only for printing a usage message.
>  
>  Try this:
>  
>       $ cp -p /usr/bin/uuencode /tmp/foobar
>       $ /tmp/foobar
>       usage: foobar [-m] [infile] remotefile
>  
>  If we followed your sugestion, the usage message would have referred to
>  "uuencode" instead of "foobar".

Is there anybody who call uuencode as foobar? :)
Seriously, if an independance of executable name is really your goal,
close this PR.

Anyway I'm waiting for USE_FEATURE+=[sg]etprogname in pkgsrc to remove
these patches.

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.


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