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>>>>> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> Keep in mind that using a glob that way is going to mean that |
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> docompress has to join each path with the current directory and |
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> then strip $D from the left side. Doing it that way complicates the |
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> implementation details a bit, and it's not quite as flexible as |
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> regular expression support would be. With regular expression support |
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> you could even control which file extensions are compressed or not. |
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Following our discussion in #-portage and after thinking about it: |
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I assume that there would be very few cases where globbing or regexp |
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support is required. And these could always be handled by the ebuild |
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itself or by an eclass function. |
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So, we should follow the KISS principle here, and allow only literal |
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paths (files or directories) as arguments for docompress. |
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Ulrich |
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