Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default

From: Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:34:38 -0700
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
Received on Sat Aug 14 2010 - 23:34:38 UTC

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