Subject: Re: linux pkgsrc and xargs
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/17/2001 16:00:14
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:25:35PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> Under linux xargs always runs the command at least once, unless
> '-r' is given. This is countrary to the usage in pkgsrc.
>
> I'd like to define an 'XARGS' variable and set it to 'xargs' on
> NetBSD and solaris, and 'xargs -r' on linux.
>
> Seem resonable?
>
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>
Seems completely reasonable to me.
Regards,
Alistair