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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 18:53:57 +0200
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bash-completion change?
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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