Re: portability as a goal for debian?

To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org>, Debian Development <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: portability as a goal for debian?
From: Sven Rudolph <sr1@loom.sax.de>
Date: 10 Mar 2001 17:29:31 +0100
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Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu> writes:

> It's annoying though to see people save a few keystrokes on calls to
> find and tar so they can avoid specifying -print

Posix Draft: "If no expression is present, -print shall be used as the
expression."

SuS: "If no expression is present, -print will be used as the
expression."

IMHO every post-jurassic system has to conform, and it is completely
sane to assume conformance.

        Sven
-- 
Sven Rudolph <sr1@sax.de>		http://www.sax.de/~sr1/

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