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diff --git a/app-shells/dash/metadata.xml b/app-shells/dash/metadata.xml index fbb0e9c7..792e7bd0 100644 --- a/app-shells/dash/metadata.xml +++ b/app-shells/dash/metadata.xml @@ -13,4 +13,11 @@ <upstream> <remote-id type="cpe">cpe:/a:dash:dash</remote-id> </upstream> + <longdescription>DASH is a direct descendant of the NetBSD version of ash (the Almquist SHell). +It is almost POSIX compliant; the most notable exception is the lack of +multicharacter support. It has some optional POSIX extensions like e.g.: +local variables, support for test -nt/-ot, echo -n</longdescription> + <use> + <flag name="cripple">Cripple XSI compliance of echo and simultaneously remove echo -n as forced by the ebuild in the main gentoo repository, see bug 590696. This differs from all other shells and breaks expectations of historical scripts like those generated by autoconf-2.13 but can perhaps be useful to check for POSIX-embedded-minimal usage</flag> + </use> </pkgmetadata> |