El mar, 29-01-2013 a las 14:03 +0800, Ben de Groot escribió: > On 29 January 2013 03:30, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > El lun, 28-01-2013 a las 14:37 +0800, Ben de Groot escribió: > >> I've started using this eclass, but with README files, not the variable, > >> because this is currently the only way I can make sure it honours my > >> formatting. > >> > > > > Couldn't it be covered if "echo -e" was used (even with fmt) and you, > > then, control formatting with some of the sequences it allows (they are > > shown in its man page)? > > No. The eclass should assume that DOC_CONTENTS is already correctly > formatted. If you must, you can add a convenience function for people > who do want reformatting, but this should NOT be the default. Please > don't make this eclass harder to use than it needs to be. >
I can add a variable (and probably will), but would prefer to keep it formatting messages by default, otherwise, how will you set DOC_CONTENTS variable inside a pkg phase (instead of global scope) without adding tabs to it? You can of course add it, but it will be read as something like: src_prepare() { DOC_CONTENTS="blablabla blablabla" # Rest of src_prepare stuff } Also, autoformatting will help to prevent every package setting messages with different lines length (in some cases really long lines that I finally reported some bugs in the past to get them fitting in "standard" 80 characters per line). I would then switch to "echo -e" and also add a function (like my original solution in this thread) to allow you to disable formatting if you want
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