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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: hanno@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-doc/gimp-help: ChangeLog gimp-help-0.13.ebuild
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:17:23
Message-Id: 20070926090348.GN22279@supernova
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-doc/gimp-help: ChangeLog gimp-help-0.13.ebuild by Mike Frysinger
1 On 04:51 Wed 26 Sep , Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 > > for USE in ${IUSE}; do
4 > > [[ ${USE} = linguas_* ]] && use_linguas ${USE}
5 > > done
6 >
7 > you dont want to use the variable 'USE' ... while it would work
8 > correctly if you declared it with 'local', it'd be confusing and
9 > repoman may just barf on it ($USE is supposed to be readonly for
10 > ebuilds)
11
12 Ahh, reviewing is so fun and educational, it almost feels like I'm
13 watching the Discovery channel. Although I'm not sure why $USE is
14 directly accessible from ebuilds ... seems like it should only be
15 accessible to use(). Implementation detail, or should it be part of the
16 PMS?
17
18 Thanks,
19 Donnie
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