Re: readme.gentoo.eclass: use echo -e instead of plain echo (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] readme.gentoo.eclass: Add a DISABLE_AUTOFORMATTING variable=

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

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El vie, 01-02-2013 a las 21:34 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> El vie, 01-02-2013 a las 17:55 +0800, Ben de Groot escribió:
> > On 1 February 2013 02:59, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > El dom, 27-01-2013 a las 18:47 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> > >> El dom, 27-01-2013 a las 15:00 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
> > >> > Currently, when people uses DOC_CONTENTS variable to place their desired
> > >> > messages, they are automatically reformatted by "fmt" to get proper
> > >> > messages (for example, splitting long lines).
> > >> >
> > >> > But, in some cases, may be useful to disable this behavior and respect
> > >> > strictly how DOC_CONTENTS was formatted, for example in that kind of
> > >> > messages telling people to run a command and, then, requiring a new line
> > >> > to be used. This can also be useful to append extra information to
> > >> > DOC_CONTENTS when, for example, additional info is needed when enabling
> > >> > a USE flag.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Well, after reading man echo I see all this is not needed, I simply need
> > >> to use echo -e to get it understand "\n" to create new lines
> > >>
> > >> New patch attached
> > >
> > > This will add an option to disabling autoformatting to let people get
> > > their doc_contents 100% respected if they want
> > 
> > How about using an "as-is" argument to readme.gentoo_create_doc?
> > That would be more concise. :-)

But, how could people then active that "as-is" option without needing to
write a src_install function calling readme.gentoo_create_doc with that
option? 

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