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@@ -5,6 +5,18 @@
<email>base-system@gentoo.org</email>
<name>Gentoo Base System</name>
</maintainer>
+ <use>
+ <flag name="egrep-fgrep">
+ Install deprecated 'egrep' and 'fgrep' wrappers
+ for 'grep -E' and 'grep -F' respectively.
+
+ GNU grep 3.8 onwards warns about their usage by
+ default, but the versions installed by this flag do not.
+
+ No deprecation warnings are emitted when this
+ flag is enabled.
+ </flag>
+ </use>
<upstream>
<remote-id type="cpe">cpe:/a:gnu:grep</remote-id>
</upstream>