From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M5Q4J-0008At-CU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 May 2009 20:01:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 472B7E062B; Sat, 16 May 2009 20:00:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1272E062B for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 20:00:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [67.40.138.82] (crater.wildlava.net [67.40.138.82]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA1E65AF7 for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 20:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4A0F1B69.3080301@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 14:00:41 -0600 From: Joe Peterson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090512) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The fallacies of GLEP55 References: <200905142006.51998.patrick@gentoo.org> <200905161059.53706.levertond@googlemail.com> <200905161828.50982.levertond@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905161828.50982.levertond@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 299c59db-7708-49d1-84e5-65cfce22a65b X-Archives-Hash: 4f893907b4aa57ff9f4d9d95c9f52296 David Leverton wrote: > For comparson, another alternative that some people have suggested is putting > it in a specially formatted comment. This avoids the issue I mentioned > because bash doesn't try to parse those at all, so the only rules are those > that specify what format the comment should be in. On the other hand, this > isn't backwards compatible with current package managers. Actually, I prefer the out-of-band approach, as well. She-bangs are pretty standard in Linux/Unix (for example). But either out-of-band or restricted in-band solutions are preferable to filename extension hacks. -Joe