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 vie, 01-02-2013 a las 17:55 +0800, Ben de Groot escribió:
> 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. :-)
>

I have no problem on either solution... but don't have time just now to
work on a patch to achieve it, if you have a bit time, I would really
appreciate :)