On Sunday 02 June 2013 03:48:17 Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 03:29:33 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > except you aren't handling edge cases (like set vs unset) > > You've got me there, though this is quite an exception; I don't see > why we have to introduce something that's barely used... > > `qgrep -eH '^\s*\bset\b' | wc -l` > yields 150 > > `qgrep -eH '^\s*\bset\b' | sed 's/:.*//g' | sed > 's/\/[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]*$//g' | sort -u | wc -l` > yields 34 > > Only 34 packages, and do these all _really_ need a 'set'? I doubt it.
i've got at least 4 consumers in mind, and that's more than enough imo to implement it right than half-ass it every time > > > Much like fixing tiny bug and trying to > > > avoid checking whether anything else is affected. > > > > yeah, because forcing specific behavior for an entire function is > > always the correct answer. it's like telling people to export > > LC_ALL=C in make.conf so they never hit locale related problems. > > Actually, bug wranglers stopped asked for English build logs because > setting LC_ALL=C ended up breaking things. i know it doesn't work which is why i was providing it as an example -mike
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