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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash-completion change?
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 18:53:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F54CA5.2080304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kt3hvb$sim$1@ger.gmane.org>

On 28/07/2013 18:47, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 28/07/13 19:08, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 10:49:46 -0400, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
>>
>>>>>>     emerge -av1 \$(qfile -q -S -C /usr/share/bash-completion)
>>>>>
>>>>> little syntax help:
>>>>>
>>>>> emerge -av1 $(qfile -q -S -C /usr/share/bash-completion)
>>>>
>>>> emerge -1a /usr/share/bash-completion
>>>
>>> Yes we learned this trick a month or two ago.
>>
>> Apparently, not all of us.
> 
> And apparently not even the Gentoo dev who put that message in the
> ebuild :-)
> 
> 


I'm still stumped about what this change is for or what it does.
And I've read all the bugs, all the posts here - still stumped.

I get a sense that it somehow has something to do with

make the ebuild $MORE_CLOSELY resemble the $BEHAVIOUR of $UPSTREAM_DEFAULT

Note the variables :-)



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-28 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-24 12:06 [gentoo-user] bash-completion change? Douglas J Hunley
2013-07-24 14:05 ` Stefano Crocco
2013-07-25 12:14   ` Douglas J Hunley
2013-07-25 15:16     ` Stefano Crocco
2013-07-26 17:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2013-07-26 19:13   ` gottlieb
2013-07-26 21:39     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2013-07-26 21:46       ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-26 23:23         ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-27 14:49           ` gottlieb
2013-07-28 16:08             ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-28 16:47               ` Nikos Chantziaras
2013-07-28 16:53                 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2013-07-28 18:25                 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-29  1:09                   ` Nikos Chantziaras
2013-07-26 23:37       ` gottlieb

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