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diff --git a/ebuild-format.rst b/ebuild-format.rst index d2c8dc5..ed9bde0 100644 --- a/ebuild-format.rst +++ b/ebuild-format.rst @@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ preprocessing, breaking URI support in terminals and editors, as well as reducing the usefulness of plain tools such as grep. - .. index:: pair: src uri; homepage @@ -87,3 +86,20 @@ incidentally depend on multi-valued variable having a single value goes against the principle of least surprise. Furthermore, it makes it hard to copy-paste part of the URI e.g. to investigate the directory index. + + +.. index:: keywords; one line + +KEYWORDS must be defined on a single line +----------------------------------------- +:Source: QA +:Reported: no + +The ``KEYWORDS`` variable must be defined at most once in an ebuild, +on a single line, with literal content (no variable references, line +wrapping, appending, etc.). + +*Rationale*: it is common for arch teams to use the ``ekeyword`` tool +when working with large number of ebuilds. The tool has only limited +ability to process and modify ebuilds, and therefore developers must +make sure that it works correctly on their ebuilds. |