[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] makepkg: printf exists

[Allan McRae]

On 23/05/10 21:20, Andres P wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Andres P<aepd87 at gmail.com>
> ---
>
> Without a function, this would look like:
> 	local fmt="= %s\n"
> 	[[ $license ]]&&  printf "license $fmt"   "${license[@]}"
> 	[[ $replaces ]]&&  printf "replaces $fmt"  "${replaces[@]}"
> 	[[ $groups ]]&&  printf "group $fmt"     "${groups[@]}"
> 	[[ $depends ]]&&  printf "depend $fmt"    "${depends[@]}"
> 	[[ $optdepend ]]&&  printf "optdepend $fmt" "${optdepends[@]}"
> 	[[ $conflict ]]&&  printf "conflict $fmt"  "${conflicts[@]}"
> 	[[ $provides ]]&&  printf "provides $fmt"  "${provides[@]}"
> 	[[ $backup ]]&&  printf "backup $fmt"    "${backup[@]}"


I'd prefer this version.  In fact, removing the $fmt stuff would be 
better as it is only two characters longer and makes it a lot more readable.

Again...  commit messages...

Allan