On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 22:39 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 09 February 2006 22:05, Ned Ludd wrote: > > I would like to see it drop the tab handling for indicating newlines > > and just use a real newlines when we want a newline. > > > > While having the tabs makes it easier for people to read it increases > > the byte size and adds some undesired complexity for admins, scripts & > > programs which want to utilize the file. A basic grep or sort would > > probably be more than a one liner when having to deal with the > > newline+tabs. > > umm, i'm 99% sure you read it wrong ... the lines were wrapped in the GLEP to > help you read it, the actual file format will not be like that
I hope that is is the case. -- solar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list