Currently package managers use slightly different methods for output of einfo messages: Portage and Pkgcore use "echo -e" while Paludis uses plain "echo". Not a big problem, but still I think that this should be standardised. For example, there is currently no PM independent way to display two blackslashes in a row. (See pkg_postinst of app-emacs/js2-mode in the Emacs overlay for a real-life example.) Also, usage of \t in messages seems to be fairly common throughout the tree.
dleverton's changed Paludis to use echo -e too, so we might as well just mandate that everywhere. Would you like to do the patch?
Created attachment 191566 [details, diff] Patch specifying interpretation of backslash escapes (In reply to comment #1) > dleverton's changed Paludis to use echo -e too, so we might as well just > mandate that everywhere. Would you like to do the patch? Attached.
Applied, thanks.
