Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI="4"
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:04:39
Message-Id: 20101025150349.7e82e57e@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI="4" by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:56:50 +0200
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3 > >>>>> On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
4 > > 1. Support for "." characters in names of USE flags
5 >
6 > Are you aware that this would break existing programs that do regexp
7 > matching on USE flags? The current implementation of the useq()
8 > function in portage is probably the most prominent example.
9
10 That's already a can of worms, since @ is allowed in use flag names.
11
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13 Ciaran McCreesh

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