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From: Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:39:57
Message-Id: 1194024908.3029.6.camel@uberpc.marples.name
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 18:17 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
2 > On Friday 02 November 2007 17:52:13 Roy Marples wrote:
3 > > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:30 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
4 > > > Please explain why you hijack this thread to discuss POSIX vs. bash when
5 > > > it's supposed to be about the API for ebuilds.
6 > >
7 > > I dislike the gratuitous use of bash for no good reason - and in the
8 > > code he gave there is no good reason for using bashisms.
9 >
10 > So your approach to getting it your way is to hijack every thread that shows
11 > use of bashisms until people start using your inferior workarounds?
12
13 I don't see them as inferior.
14 I see them as more portable and less confusing.
15
16 Of course you are welcome to compare the code in question and state
17 which is inferior and why it is so.
18
19 Thanks
20
21 Roy
22
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