[gobolinux-devel] Use flags specification

jan jan.marecek at gmail.com
Sun Apr 13 20:03:02 NZST 2008


On Saturday 12 April 2008 20:06:10 Michael Homer wrote:
> The environment variable takes a space-separated list of flag
> specifications (rather than newline), so it accepts a special syntax
> for the specifications, with ';' instead of a space when listing
> programs to go with a flag. It takes the ugly syntax because it's
> likely to be by far the least common way of using it. The same set of
> flags from above could be applied with:
> USE="+foo -bar +bar;FooBar"

I'd prefer if colon was used instead. My brain reflexively parses the 
semicolon as a statement separator.

USE="+foo -bar +bar:FooBar"

-- 
jan


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