Re: readme.gentoo.eclass: use echo -e instead of plain echo (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] readme.gentoo.eclass: Add a DISABLE_AUTOFORMATTING variable=

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 27 January 2013 13:21:27 Pacho Ramos wrote:
> The problem is that it doesn't work so well. If I have the following at
> src_prepare (for example):
> src_prepare() {
>         DOC_CONTENTS="You must create a symlink rom /etc/splash/tuxonice
> to the theme you want tuxonice to use, e.g.: \n
>                       # ln -sfn /etc/splash/emergence /etc/splash/tuxonice \n"
> ...
> 
> and I handle ${DOC_CONTENTS} with quotes, it will end writing that tabs
> also in generated file as the contents of the variable will be put
> as-is. On the other hand, if I don't put it between quotes

forcibly normalizing whitespace for all callers is wrong imo (as is sending it 
through `fmt`).  if the caller gave you content to write, it should write it.  
if the caller didn't want tabs, it shouldn't have used it in the first place.
-mike

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