[gobolinux-devel] Use flags specification

[Hisham]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Michael Homer <michael at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:03 PM, jan <jan.marecek at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > 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"
>  We can't use a colon, because that's reserved for /S/Aliens (that
>  *has* to get something that isn't a shell metacharacter). There's not
>  much punctuation left that we can use in a string without it getting
>  mangled by the shell. The other options available are: @#%^&|/ - if
>  one of them would be better I can change it, but I don't really see
>  it.

Any of those (except # perhaps) would be better, because ";" really
implies 'line separator' for most eyes. I'd say go with @ (it would
read something "bar flag at FooBar" which kinda makes sense).

-- Hisham