Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] user-definable tail and grep

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Andreas,

> > All grep binaries I've seen support both -v and -q. I thought we
> > could still test them as it doesn't cost us much, but I can drop
> > these tests if you think they are needless.
> 
> I'd rather not add totally useless tests. The will just bitrot and
> break.
> 
> > Solaris' /usr/bin/grep doesn't support -E, so I really want this
> > test in quilt's configure.
> 
> It's easy to not use ``grep -E'' at all. There were only a few
> instances, so  we don't need this test anymore.

Fine with me then, I'll drop all grep tests.

I'll still commit the "tail -n" test, I don't think we can do without
it.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare