On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:55:08 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:35:21 +0200
> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> > Could you point me to at least a single program not supporting dots
> > in useflags? My quick check shows that all PMs handle them well,
> > quse and euse as well.
> 
> Hrm, it's rather disappointing that they're accepted everywhere. That
> really shouldn't happen... My excuse for Paludis is that I never quite
> got around to passing in additional flags to validation of names, and
> dots are legal in exheres-0, so they're currently accepted everywhere.

And may I remind you that lately you deliberately changed PMS for all
EAPIs to satisfy invalid paludis behavior? And you knew that it caused
actual breakages.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny