On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:44:42 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Sun, 10 Mar 2013, Michał Górny wrote: > > > Yep. That's why the non-quoted fragment has a safety check and dies > > if it doesn't. > > It doesn't matter if there's a safety check. Bash 4 features are > simply not allowed in the tree. Is there a technical reason for that? As far as I understand it, the method used in the ebuild should guarantee that in the worst case user would have to restart emerge once. Well, unless we're talking about a theoretical package mangler which intentionally uses internal, old version of bash to prove the point. -- Best regards, Michał Górny