On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And why don't y'all fix a bug like that? > > We do what PMS requires regarding handling of inline comments (which is > the same as what some EAPI 0 accepting Portage versions do, so PMS > can't allow inline comments), and indicate an error (rather than > writing junk, as older Portage did) when inline comments are used.
I believe this is reasoning is no longer valid. Current versions of Portage accepts inline comments just fine (so does pkgcore). So, your logic for PMS not allowing inline comments is based on "some [...] [old] Portage versions" and does not specify current Portage behaviour. IMO, it should be fixed to reflect majority (and specifically portage) behaviour. Interesting to note, however, that Paludis doesn't accept inline comments, and this behaviour predates PMS. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
