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From: "Crístian Viana" <cristiandeives@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:17:51 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <92ad22480909151317g9c91051j3f95b4a4016181d3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AAFF51B.3090905@ep.mine.nu>

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thank you, I didn't know about that. I thought comments were always stripped
off the contents of the config files, no matter where they were.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Neil Walker <neil@ep.mine.nu> wrote:

> Crístian Viana wrote:
> > www-client/mozilla-firefox # hello world
>
> For it to be a valid comment, the '#' MUST be the first character on the
> line. That's always been the convention. A FEW programs will recognise
> the '#' elsewhere in the line as the start of the comment but you should
> NEVER EVER rely upon that.
>
> > I don't think this behavior is consistent, comments shouldn't matter.
> > is that a desirable feature or a bug?
>
> It's totally consistent and highly desirable.
>
>
> Be lucky,
>
> Neil
> http://www.neiljw.com
>
>
>
>


-- 
Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-15 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-15 19:55 [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords Crístian Viana
2009-09-15 20:12 ` Neil Walker
2009-09-15 20:17   ` Crístian Viana [this message]
2009-09-15 20:49     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-09-16  2:14       ` Crístian Viana
2009-09-16  7:34         ` Alan McKinnon

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