On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 23:44:26 +0300 Andrew Savchenko <birc...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Maybe. But splitting documentation of one issue into several > documents may confuse readers. We already have "hyphen" in a > category name being mentioned in the PMS, so this should be either > clarified in the PMS or moved completely to the devmanual. Maybe add a "but this set of options may be limited by invidual vendor conventions" or similar, indicating that although Portage Specification is one way, that there is at least one known subset of stricter behaviour elsewhere. That way people don't get tricked into reading PMS and then using it as grounds to break Gentoo policies. It *should* go without saying, but its better to be assume the reader doesn't know what "should go without saying" entails.
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