On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:56:23 -0800
Donnie Berkholz <dberkh...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Can this be fixed by adding bash dependencies to things using new 
> features? As long as we keep them out of the build path of bash,
> things ought to work.

Only if you're guaranteed bash 3.1 on boxes that do metadata
generation. Which means it won't work for overlays.

> Then we could add a repoman check for new features, if we wanted.

Can't do that unless you write a feature-complete bash parser and
pretend-execute every possible path an ebuild can take...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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