Thread: [Fremantle Maemo5+Harmattan Maemo6] Midnight Commander
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reinob is offline reinob
2015-01-24 , 18:31
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#119
Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
But if we must expect a GNU-compatible diff, I'd recommend we rather have mc patched to invoke /usr/bin/gnu/diff directly, and not screw with people's PATHs.
But then if *my* (and your) GNU diff (or compatible) is in /usr/local/bin your outta luck.

Adding a wrapper to MC so that by default /usr/bin/gnu is in front of everything else is OK because people like you or me who may have a better diff somewhere else can work around the issue in no time.

It's bad enough that MC hardcodes GNUisms but asking the maintainer to hardcode a PATH is IMHO a bad move. Shell wrappers are easy to tweak/patch/remove. Hardcoded paths is not my idea of fun
 

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