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On 03/08/2012 08:11 AM, David Leverton wrote:
> On Mar 8, 2012 3:29 PM, "Zac Medico"<zmedico@g.o> wrote:
>> Something like DEPEND="foo bar" is also valid bash, and yet we don't
>> allow that either because "foo bar" does not contain valid dependency
>> atoms.
>
> There's a bit of a difference between caring about the value of a
> variable and caring about what syntax was used to assign it....
Maybe that sort of distinction truly makes a difference to some people,
but to me it just seems like hair-splitting [1].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_objections
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Thanks,
Zac
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