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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42?
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:26:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061011212633.30942d25@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0610111551180.1206@rutrow.coat.com>

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On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:52:08 -0400 (EDT) "Michael Sterrett -Mr.
Bones.-" <msterret@coat.com> wrote:
| What's the point of all the square brackets?  Is there some benefit
| over just [foo -bar baz]?

Spaces in dep atoms would be highly evil, since it'd mean they were no
longer simply space delimited. Commas [foo,-bar,baz] would be fine...

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Ciaran McCreesh
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-11 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-11 12:59 [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42? Stuart Herbert
2006-10-11 14:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-11 17:37 ` Zac Medico
2006-10-11 18:28   ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-10-11 18:52     ` Zac Medico
2006-10-11 21:04       ` Stuart Herbert
2006-10-11 18:36   ` Brian Jackson
2006-10-11 18:44     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-11 19:30       ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-10-11 19:46         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-11 19:52           ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
2006-10-11 20:04             ` Brian Harring
2006-10-12 15:10               ` Jan Kundrát
2006-10-11 20:26             ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2006-10-11 20:45               ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
2006-10-11 21:08               ` [gentoo-dev] " Stuart Herbert
2006-10-11 21:17                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-12  9:00                   ` Stuart Herbert
2006-10-12 15:18                     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-12 12:24                   ` Natanael Copa
2006-10-12 15:18                     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-12 15:41                       ` [gentoo-dev] Paladius (was: GLEP 42?) Natanael Copa
2006-10-12 19:28                         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-12 16:03                     ` [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42? Andrew Gaffney
2006-10-12 16:37                       ` Stephen Bennett
2006-10-11 22:34                 ` Stephen Bennett
2006-10-12  8:52                   ` Stuart Herbert
2006-10-12 10:57                     ` Stephen Bennett
2006-10-12 15:40                     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-10-11 19:11     ` [gentoo-dev] " Danny van Dyk

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