Official request: Please make GNU grep the default

[Dimitry Andric]

On 2010-08-14 17:53, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> From my point of 
> view importing of the latest GNU grep instead would have more benefits. 

Unfortunately GNU grep switched to GPLv3 as of version 2.5.3.  The last
GPLv2 version of grep is 2.5.1, which is already in our tree.