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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:13:31 +0200
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Cc: Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] EAPI must be at least a single char.
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>>>>> On Sun, 30 Sep 2012, Brian Harring wrote:

> The example regex allowed for
> EAPI=

> Which isn't used, alloewd, nor desired; at best, that's short hand
> for EAPI=0.

The regexp was never meant to match exactly what is allowed.
It matches a superset, and if the matched substring turns out to be an
illegal or unknown EAPI, then the PM can catch it after parsing.

Otherwise, an empty EAPI is already forbidden by section 3.1
"Restrictions upon Names".

Ulrich