From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KiXS2-0001tR-1T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:42:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C244E0539; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:42:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42508E0539 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:42:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7880767DF7 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:42:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.804 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.804 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.728, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 56ZZwl8Hs8DA for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:42:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85B69B4C98 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:42:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KiXRj-0006fT-SX for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:42:35 +0000 Received: from 82.152.208.249 ([82.152.208.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:42:35 +0000 Received: from slong by 82.152.208.249 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:42:35 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: OT: Re: Default src_install for EAPI-2 or following EAPI Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:33:49 +0100 Message-ID: References: <18646.17986.821510.192980@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <8cd1ed20809211030w74725bb1qd60482d5fa7bfce2@mail.gmail.com> <18646.38777.205043.568794@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <18646.45711.173931.589892@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <48D94608.7060805@gentoo.org> <18649.57463.2358.294050@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.152.208.249 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 9bbb66c4-1160-4e33-98a9-1790c9ab98cb X-Archives-Hash: 786456c732a5b3805df299b8971dacc4 Steve Long wrote: > In summary that's why for > instance no filenames with spaces (leave alone all the other characters > you can't deal with atm) can be safely handled by any of your ebuild > structure, unless it comes from a glob, and is never manipulated or > referenced in and of itself. (Unless you wish to go down the eval route, > which believe me is not fun at all.) > Or Roy's shell function thing (ie every array is handled via a function call.) Then we're arguing about how, not why, however (and BASH arrays are much nicer to work with for scripts that aren't just glue.)