Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:34:38 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: core@freebsd.org, delphij@freebsd.org, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default Message-ID: <20100815013438.GA8958@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4C673F02.8000805@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C6505A4.9060203@FreeBSD.org> <20100813085235.GA16268@freebsd.org> <4C66C010.3040308@FreeBSD.org> <4C673F02.8000805@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 06:12:34PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > Sophisticated users who DO care about performance and/or DO use grep in > interesting and creative ways will put up with the breakage for a while, > then switch their make.conf to use GNU grep, usually silently. Therefore > they stop providing ANY test data at all, never mind useful. > Whereas switching the default back to GNU grep *guarantees* neither unsophisticated nor sophosticated user will test BSD grep. It seems that you are letting a poor design decision with respect to portmaster impair others contribution to FreeBSD. I suspect that you could have added a USE_GREP knob to the port infrastructure and updated your port to use ports/textproc/gnugrep in the time that you have used to post and reply here. -- Steve
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