On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 08:48:08AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:33:52 +0200 > Tobias Heinlein <keytoas...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > 3) Questions that aren't that important at all and would just be "nice > > to know". > > [snip] > > Examples for these: > > > > 5. What is wrong with using $(somecommand) or `somecommand` or $ARCH > > inside SRC_URI, DEPEND, etc? > > [Devmanual, Caching] > > How the heck is this not important? Anyone who doesn't immediately know > the answer to this has absolutely no business touching any ebuild that > might end up being given to someone else.
That question really needs chunking up offhand- there are valid usages of $(), but the question doesn't really ask when it's not explicitly. You see it, I see it, so lets skip getting into it further lest someone have a very easy google answer on it ;) Either way, file a bug re: it for wording improvements if you'd like. ~harring
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