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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCHv3 1/2] MEDIUM: misc-functions: Be more quiet when removing non existing INSTALL_MASK
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:28:39
Message-Id: 553688C3.1020300@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCHv3 1/2] MEDIUM: misc-functions: Be more quiet when removing non existing INSTALL_MASK by Michael Orlitzky
1 On 04/21/2015 04:21 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On 04/21/2015 05:48 AM, Duncan wrote:
3 >>>
4 >>> Well, I don't use INSTALL_MASK myself, so I don't have a real-world
5 >>> use-case for you. However, it's clear that the code will expand shell
6 >>> globs, so I preserved that behavior for compatibility.
7 >>
8 >> I do, with shell globs, tho I didn't bother checking the above to see if
9 >> they'd have been affected.
10 >>
11 >
12 > The docs for INSTALL_MASK (man 5 make.conf) don't mention that globs
13 > will work. It's expecting a "space delimited list of file names." Does
14 > it really take a space-delimited list of globs instead? If so, how does
15 > that reconcile with the fact that * could match spaces?
16
17 How does it conflict?
18 --
19 Thanks,
20 Zac

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