Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Apply patch depending on USE flag

[Brett I. Holcomb]

For the sake of one who is doing ebuilds - why is the first form
preferred?  I'm curious.  I'm working on revising an ebuild now that has
the bad form.

Thanks.

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Thursday 29 April 2004 03:33 pm, Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Lars Strojny wrote:
> > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:20:48 +0100
> > > Tom Wesley <tom.wesley@××××××××.com> wrote:
> > > > You can
> > > >
> > > >         if use nntp; then
> > > >             epatch ${DISTDIR}/${nntp_patch}
> > > >         fi
> > >
> > > I think
> > > if [ "`use nntp`" ] ; then
> > > is more elegant ;)
> >
> > Between the two, the first example is preferred.
>
> and by prefered he means 'do not use the following syntax anymore in ebuilds':
> [ `use nntp` ]
> [ "`use nntp`" ]
> [ -z "`use nntp`" ]
> [ -n "`use nntp`" ]
> -mike
>
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