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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-pms] Re: [gentoo-dev] doheader function for EAPI 5?
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:35:38
Message-Id: 5054E67C.4080402@gentoo.org
1 On 08/31/2012 01:20 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > A new "doheader" (and "newheader") helper function is on our list of
5 > possible EAPI 5 features. It would be very easy to implement, just
6 > copy the code from doconfd or doenvd.
7 >
8 > However, this function was suggested in Bug 21310 [1] which was filed
9 > in 2003. The absence of any activity there makes me wonder if anybody
10 > cares about the feature?
11 >
12 > Ulrich
13 >
14 > [1] <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21310>
15
16 PMS does not document this, and the current Portage implementation
17 supports -r since it passes the arguments to doins as noted here:
18
19 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21310#c5
20
21 --
22 Thanks,
23 Zac