Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND / USE 'configuration space' refactoring: bikeshedding the separator
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:27:53
Message-Id: 20120913162427.6cc0e4de@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] USE_EXPAND / USE 'configuration space' refactoring. by Brian Harring
1 On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:39:19 -0700
2 Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > 1) We disallow '@' in USE flags (yes, a use flag can actually have
4 > '@' in it's name according to PMS; someone was hitting the crack
5 > pipe pretty damn hard when they allowed that one). This doesn't
6 > impact anything in gentoo-x86, nor any tree I've ever seen.
7
8 No crack pipe was involved in that decision! It's because of LINGUAS.
9
10 (Incidentally, we used : rather than @ for separation for exheres-0 for
11 that reason.)
12
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14 Ciaran McCreesh

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