Re: readme.gentoo.eclass: use echo -e instead of plain echo (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] readme.gentoo.eclass: Add a DISABLE_AUTOFORMATTING variable=

[Pacho Ramos]

El dom, 27-01-2013 a las 18:47 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> El dom, 27-01-2013 a las 15:00 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> > Currently, when people uses DOC_CONTENTS variable to place their desired
> > messages, they are automatically reformatted by "fmt" to get proper
> > messages (for example, splitting long lines).
> >
> > But, in some cases, may be useful to disable this behavior and respect
> > strictly how DOC_CONTENTS was formatted, for example in that kind of
> > messages telling people to run a command and, then, requiring a new line
> > to be used. This can also be useful to append extra information to
> > DOC_CONTENTS when, for example, additional info is needed when enabling
> > a USE flag.
> >
> >
>
> Well, after reading man echo I see all this is not needed, I simply need
> to use echo -e to get it understand "\n" to create new lines
>
> New patch attached

This will add an option to disabling autoformatting to let people get
their doc_contents 100% respected if they want