Re: [gentoo-dev] Parsable list of all use variables.

[George Shapovalov <georges@its.caltech.edu>]

On Friday 10 May 2002 09:50, Bob Phan wrote:
> I agree completely.  My original reasoning for XML was enforcing the
> formatting and perhaps adding more information.  But for my purposes,
> what is there should be good enough for now.  And actually, it doesn't
> matter if there is a - in the description as long as there aren't any
> in the use variables themselves.  You can split on - and request 2
There is even simplier solution to that: we can (and should) enforce space 
after usevar name. After all, these vars are garanteed to not have a 
whitespace in it ;). Also, it might become desirable to have a dash inside 
one of the use-vars, who knows?
This is the latest format proposal (basically the same as now, just an attempt 
to enforce it):
1. usevar definition is contained within a single line.
2. usevar is followed by space (?any whitespace?) then goes a single separator 
character (we can enforce "-", but parser may not care) then description 
field.



> > Nice, could you submit this script to bugs.gentoo.org?
>
> Yup, I'll tidy it up, add docs and an ebuild, and ship it off to
> bugzilla tonight.
Cool :).

George