Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCHv3 1/2] MEDIUM: misc-functions: Be more quiet when removing non existing INSTALL_MASK

[Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>]

On 04/21/2015 01:28 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
>>
>> The docs for INSTALL_MASK (man 5 make.conf) don't mention that globs
>> will work. It's expecting a "space delimited list of file names." Does
>> it really take a space-delimited list of globs instead? If so, how does
>> that reconcile with the fact that * could match spaces?
> 
> How does it conflict?
> 

I guess it's more of a filenames-with-spaces question. Would this work?

  INSTALL_MASK="Boyd\ -\ Convex Optimization.pdf"

If you can escape the spaces, then the space-separated globs aren't
ambiguous. I was thinking of something like this:

  $ /bin/ls B*\ Convex*
  Boyd - Convex Optimization.pdf

Normally if you stick something like that in a quoted variable, its
spaces can be unescaped:

  INSTALL_MASK="B* Convex*"

But now it's two globs instead of one. The whole thing makes sense if
you can leave the space escaped though.