Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/audio/abcde

[David Holland <dholland-pkgchanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 08:29:22PM +0200, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
 > > > Also, don't depend on gsed directly, add it to
 > > > USE_TOOLS.
 > > 
 > > This can be dangerous. With the "tools" framework, you can't
 > > be sure that you really get the GNU gsed program. It can
 > > also be just a symlink gsed->/usr/bin/sed.
 > 
 > Wouldn't that be quite broken?. I would expect that if a package insists
 > on gsed, it would get gsed and nothing else.

IIRC, "gsed" is code for "a sed that works" rather than specifically
the GNU one, whereas if you say USE_TOOLS+=sed it may pick a legacy
svr4 or similar sed, which is still good enough for most uses.

Someone(TM) should probably invent a better way to encode this and
clean it up.

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David A. Holland
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