On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But some EAPI-0 accepting Portage versions don't accept inline > comments. Using inline comments in the tree will break those Portage > versions. > > This one's especially an issue when you consider how long it's been > since Gentoo has released official stage tarballs...
Which versions exactly? How old? > >> Interesting to note, however, that Paludis doesn't accept inline >> comments, and this behaviour predates PMS. > > Paludis behaviour there matches Portage behaviour at the time it was > written, except that instead of proceeding with garbage values, Paludis > gives an error. Well, then it should be updated to match current Portage behaviour. PMS is not supposed to document "How portage worked at one point of time" or "The intersection of the capabilities of Portage and Paludis". It should follow the current portage's behaviour as closely as possible. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
