Re: git: 1a8a9a832eb5 - main - devel/libvirt: depend on GNU grep(1) in a more robust way

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From: Gleb Popov <arrowd_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 09:48:31 UTC

On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> The branch main has been updated by danfe:
>
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=1a8a9a832eb52cb3bb7ea6453a88451d54ebc597
>
> commit 1a8a9a832eb52cb3bb7ea6453a88451d54ebc597
> Author:     Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2025-05-10 09:33:44 +0000
> Commit:     Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2025-05-10 09:33:44 +0000
>
>     devel/libvirt: depend on GNU grep(1) in a more robust way
>
>     FreeBSD ships native grep(1) implementation in the base for
>     quite a while, so don't bother to check its origin and just
>     request GNU version explicitly like on Darwin (macOS).
>
>     Depending on `/usr/local/bin/grep' is also wrong because of
>     the hardcoded prefix and because compatibility symlinks are
>     optional (plans are to disable them in the future).

This change doesn't make sense to me. Can you please elaborate on the
last paragraph?