On 03/08/2012 08:29 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:21:53 -0800
> Zac Medico<zmedico@g.o>  wrote:
>> Maybe that sort of distinction truly makes a difference to some
>> people, but to me it just seems like hair-splitting [1].
>
> So just to get this straight, you think that the following two
> restrictions are effectively equivalent?
>
> * The variable DEPEND's value must be set according to the following
>    rules:
>
> * The EAPI variable assignment must not use full bash syntax. Instead,
>    it must be assigned according to the following rules:

Yeah, I think they're reasonably/roughly equivalent for how we use them 
in the current context.

> And you believe that having exactly one place inside ebuild text where
> there are different whitespace, quoting and indenting rules for
> something that otherwise looks exactly like any other metadata variable
> isn't going to cause problems?

Yes, with the stipulation that we implement a sanity check / feedback 
mechanism which guarantees that the probed EAPI is identical with the 
result obtained from bash [1].

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402167#c18
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Thanks,
Zac