Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 27: Revisited (aka dynusers/creandus)

[Mike Kelly]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 00:44:57 -0400
Mike Kelly <pioto@g.o> wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:28:21 -0700
> Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
>
> > I'd prefer that the format be key=value for easier use by bash, as
> > pretty much everything else in profiles is bash.
>
> Only issue I can think of is that we'd have to be sure to pick key
> names that don't conflict with bash variables like UID and SHELL,
> which shouldn't really be that hard, so I'm sure there had to be some
> stronger reason to not make it shell variables... I'll dig through
> logs and try to figure out what it was.

Well, I couldn't find anything in my IRC logs, all I could find is that
I switched away from using the key="value" stuff at r10 in my svn repo,
on 5 July (it's now at r213). No one else I talked to remembered why
the switch was done in the first place, so I'm just going to change the
format back to key="value", like bash variables. Unlike most other
variables in profiles, though, I am keeping these with all lowercase
variable names, e.g. uid="5".

I'll update the documentation in my dev space tomorrow.

-- 
Mike Kelly