On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:26:09 +0300
Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > += is bash 3.1, which isn't legal for use in the tree.
> 
> It's been in use for a long time in xfce's ebuilds already, noone has
> ever complained. One can easily match some hundreds of ebuilds in tree
> where it's used.

Yes, unfortunately it's impossible to get repoman to detect it reliably.

> Is this *really* a issue? If so, I have no trouble in reusing the var,
> but it's ugly.

It is. Unfortunately a whole bunch of developers moaned noisily when we
tried to fix the problem, so the tree's stuck with bash 3.0
indefinitely.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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