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 1J22ak-0001VD-OW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:43:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBBAgKAX009575; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:42:20 GMT Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBBAcuX9004129 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:38:56 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 9B4C8190077 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:38:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Roy Marples To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to pass list of paths to eclass? User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1197361032.10214.17.camel@camobap> <20071211084451.GH31432@supernova> In-Reply-To: <20071211084451.GH31432@supernova> 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 Content-Disposition: inline X-Length: 1163 X-UID: 827 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:38:55 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200712111038.55739.roy@marples.name> X-Archives-Salt: 0995f6a5-7b09-4f51-8f08-b451cf956663 X-Archives-Hash: 678802a7abd9b3a4f3ce102e43c59611 On Tuesday 11 December 2007 08:44:51 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Roy solved a similar problem in baselayout-2 using hardcoded newlines, > although it had the additional constraint of sh compatibility. It's > worth considering code clarity between that and arrays. Only because some commands could litterally have any character in then, making things a little tricky. Here I see no reason why it cannot behave like $PATH and operate under the same constraints. Thanks Roy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list