From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE8A213877A for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE8B4E0870; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C9473E084E for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:05:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F383400C0 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:05:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.937 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.937 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.283, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.652, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7s_7IwtTkp59 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:04:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0FE80340088 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:04:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X49XC-0003HU-5c for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:04:46 +0200 Received: from ppp118-209-164-198.lns20.mel6.internode.on.net ([118.209.164.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:04:46 +0200 Received: from kensington by ppp118-209-164-198.lns20.mel6.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:04:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Palimaka Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Standardise the variable for including eclasses only once Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:04:22 +1000 Message-ID: References: <21430.29481.773070.678302@a1i15.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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp118-209-164-198.lns20.mel6.internode.on.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: <21430.29481.773070.678302@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> X-Archives-Salt: d90904c3-c2cb-4aa2-afaa-04962c94c04b X-Archives-Hash: bce75905fb6f1f510a7de7d86f5a46d8 On 07/04/2014 07:26 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > I have no strong preference for the variable's value. Is testing for > a non-empty value sufficient? Then we should assign something simple > (like "1"). If not, any string that is sufficiently random (like the > one used in eutils) should be good. I believe vapier introduced the original check and random value, so perhaps he knows.