On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 19:27 +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:13:04PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > We would have to add a few small utilities which, though not > > > standardized by POSIX, are widely supposed (fgrep, egrep, tar, cpio). > > One detail: egrep is dead, deprecated and supposed not to be used > > anymore ... for years (You might seen it on autoconf@) > > sure, I know. Yet I don't think we can remove it from the buildroot. > The consequence would be that many backages would happily build, but > misconfigured. Hard to hunt for that. > > What might make sense, is placing a bomb instead of [fe]grep and then > rebuilding. For each package which nukes, we'd notify upstream. > But is it worth the effort? Well, IMO, you hardly can avoid starting the effort, otherwise you will never be able to get rid of deprecated "standard tools". > I think we should accept the fact that these non--standard commands > will stay available for very long... Backward compatibility... > And relying on the fact that everyone provides backward > compatibility... :-) I think, it would be best to split out egrep/fgrep into separate packages, say "grep-deprecated" or "grep-dontuse" or similar. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
