Re: assimilating OpenBSD
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:03:29AM +0000, Colin Phipps wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 08:06:12PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> > Right now I am working on dpkg and debhelper. they partly reley on
> > powerful gnu-features of unix tools like xargs -r, tar --no-recurse
> > --null, find -regex, cpio -0
>
> As someone else commented, if we need features of the GNU versions of
> these tools, go with the GNU versions (for starters, at least).
Ah, but then you need to audit them. To get started it's much quicker to
take the already audited OpenBSD utilities and work with them.
J.
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