From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Inyo5-0001lr-Dd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:51:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id lA2Fohak001481; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:50:43 GMT Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lA2FmnIT031423 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:48:49 GMT Received: from [10.73.1.31] (uberlaptop.marples.name [10.73.1.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.marples.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8506190106 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:48:48 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags From: Roy Marples To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200711021138.04061.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <472B29B9.50002@gentoo.org> <200711021059.14390.vapier@gentoo.org> <1194017453.10346.2.camel@uberlaptop.development.ltl> <200711021138.04061.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:48:47 +0000 Message-Id: <1194018527.10346.6.camel@uberlaptop.development.ltl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 406968f3-7094-4d2f-85d6-ed1754fe4b09 X-Archives-Hash: 4a15ad6cb091747f39965a42704de6cf On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 11:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > wrong. the point of the discussion on the gentoo dev mailing list is to go > over the exported API for *ebuilds*, not for the implementation. the > implementation is already baked and really, Marijn shouldnt have sent it to > the gentoo dev mailing list in the first place. your pointless POSIX > conversions have no place in the discussion. However, I notice that you have no problem discussing the implementation of ebuild commits or are they special in some way? My POSIX conversations encourage the use of POSIX over non portable bash as that's something I try and encourage. And that is very pertinent to -dev. Thanks Roy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list