Bug 326399

Summary:	Gentoo PMS: need clarification on misc. assumptions about that pesky make.defaults file
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Jacob Godserv <jacobgodserv>
Component:	Project-specific documentation	Assignee:	PMS/EAPI <pms>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Jacob Godserv 2010-07-01 03:58:22 UTC

Here are some things I discovered while writing a standalone Gentoo profile parser that were not immediately clear and might need some clarification:

 * Line continuations are mentioned in make.defaults, and specifically disallowed in other files, but then left to interpretation (kind of) in other files. When I compiled a list of rules into the parser, I noticed line continuations are only allowable within make.defaults. Can line continuations be specifically stated as only allowed within make.defaults?
 * Again in make.defaults, the contents of the variables are never mentioned. These variables are almost always used for space-delimited values. Is this covered by PMS, in which it would suggest white-space delimited values for lists, or should I just try and interpret what portage will accept here? Right now I handle both spaces and tabs as proper delimiters, to be on the safe side.

These are nit-picky, so I totally understand if you mark this bug as WONTFIX. (Besides, I've gotten in trouble when I posted patches that, even though they made it into SVN, were incorrect, so I thought this time I'd throw my thoughts out there and let you guys handle them this time.)

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2018-08-08 14:02:43 UTC

No progress since 8 years. Closing.