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From:  Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>
Subject: [gentoo-dev]  Re: Re: bzr.eclass into Portage
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Bo =D8rsted Andresen wrote:

> On Monday 13 October 2008 04:43:48 Steve Long wrote:
>> EBZR_OPTIONS=3D"${EBZR_OPTIONS:-}" (and similar variants)
>> doesn't do anything (beyond waste lex and yacc time.)
>=20
> It gets listed in the generated man page.
>
>From what I remember of the awk that generates those manpages, this:
=20
# @ECLASS-VARIABLE: EBZR_OPTIONS
# @DESCRIPTION:
# The options passed to the fetch and update commands.

..does that.

>> The same consideration applies to all those "constant values" 'and
>> indeed' ${foo} as opposed to $foo, though first time I raised that I g=
ot
>> sworn at, so not expecting miracles here.
>=20
> Are you for real?
>=20
Perhaps you missed the discussion about EAPI in filenames?