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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:12:23AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> > According to bug #9301 [0], PROVIDES is only a list file and is not 
> > executed 
> > in bash. I didn't know that. I guess documentation still hasn't catched 
> > up. 
> > Perhaps that explains why most PROVIDES files still have something 
> > like: "provides  PROVIDER  &&" in them.
> > 
> > Would it be OK if I devised a cunning little script to fix these like I 
> > did 
> > when I removed UPDATED entries [1]? I already tested it, and just a 
> > handful 
> > of (already) illegal entries were left behind. Those I could take care of 
> > by 
> > hand.
> > 
> > [0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9301
> > [1] https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2006-August/015215.html
> 
> I'd say go ahead. Any and all cleanups are welcome. :)
 
I agree with both statements :)

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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