418473 – [tracker] virtual/awk porting

Bug 418473 - [tracker] virtual/awk porting

Summary: [tracker] virtual/awk porting

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Development (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Christoph Junghans (RETIRED)

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Keywords:	Tracker

Depends on:	415689 419555 419559 424137 425744 426624 426628 455638 455640 455642 455644 455646 455648 455650 455652 455654 455656 455658 455660 455662 455664 455666 455668 455672 455674 455676 455678 455680 455682 455684 455686 455688 455692 455696 455698 455710 455712 455714 455716 455718 455720 455722 455726 455728 455730 455732 455734 455736 455738 455740 455742 455744 455746 455748 455786 456690 456692
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Reported:	2012-06-01 04:09 UTC by Christoph Junghans (RETIRED)
Modified:	2015-03-08 00:13 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-01 04:09:16 UTC

This bug is used for the tracking of packages broken by virtual/awk usage instead of sys-apps/gawk

 - File a NEW bug for each issue and make it BLOCK this one.  
 - Please keep this tracker free from comments.  Discussion should take place
on the relevant bugs

Comment 1 Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-04 02:40:58 UTC

The one true awk by Brian W. Kernighan.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-02-05 23:27:01 UTC

keep in mind that many packages are stupid and have bogus dependencies.  they should be fixed to not have the dependency at all rather than blindly changing to virtual/awk.