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On Thursday 29 April 2004 11:12 pm, Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> maillog: 29/04/2004-22:27:22(-0400): Brett I. Holcomb types |
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> > For the sake of one who is doing ebuilds - why is the first form |
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> > preferred? I'm curious. I'm working on revising an ebuild now that has |
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> > the bad form. |
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> Related to the question: I really hate it when ebuild start printing out |
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> use flags here and there, because of the |
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which is *exactly* why we want to stop using the forms i cited :P |
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those forms require that use echo something in order for them to be true ... |
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if we convert all the forms over to just: |
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use nntp |
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if use nntp ; then |
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then we can make 'use' stop echoing crap and then introduce a 'usev' for the |
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case when we actually want `use` to echo something |
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-mike |
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