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Re: Proposed API changes before pkgsrc-2006Q1



On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 05:03:51PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
> The REPLACE_INTERPRETER forces package authors to define variables whose
> name starts with an underscore. And, even worse, this is _documented_ in
> the pkgsrc guide. Since a few minutes, the variables REPLACE.* and
> REPLACE_FILES.* can be used as aliases for _REPLACE.* and
> _REPLACE_FILES.*.

Here's a diff which corrects all occurences of ^_REPLACE in pkgsrc.  I've
also changed ${SH:Q} back to ${SH}, as we discussed.  

> The remaining question is when to replace the use of the old variables
> with the use of the new ones.            

I don't see much reason to postpone this.  Shall I just commit it now?  

        Geert

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