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

[Ben de Groot]

On 1 February 2013 02:59, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
> 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

How about using an "as-is" argument to readme.gentoo_create_doc?
That would be more concise. :-)

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Ben | yngwin
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Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin