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user/diffutils: new package - #4309

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@wezm wezm commented May 30, 2025

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Adds GNU diffutils. I need GNU diff for the test suite of the product I work on for my job. Unfortunately BSD diff and GNU diff have incompatible forms for grouping in regexs \(, \) for GNU, ( and ) for BSD, which we use. So I can't easily avoid the need for GNU diff without breaking things for other colleagues.

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not 100% sure about this but since we have gsed, ggrep, etc., maybe this should also be gdiffutils?

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wezm commented Jun 11, 2025

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I think the 'g' prefix makes sense where there are other packages that might want to use the same name, but I'm not sure there's another 'diffutils'. The tools do get installed with the 'g' prefix though.

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triallax merged commit bb8d95b into chimera-linux:master Jun 19, 2025
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