[135005] trunk/dports/x11/xinit/Portfile

[Rainer Müller]

On 2015-04-13 17:01, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Apr 13, 2015, at 10:38 AM, Mihai Moldovan <ionic at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> The "problem" is that this is not a real "block" but a list element.
>> While a newline at the beginning is generally ignored by the notes base
>> code, newlines at the end are not. Not escaping a newline there is thus
>> leading to output like this:
>>
>> "xinit has the following notes:
>>  To choose MacPorts' X11 as the default server, you must install
>> xorg-server,
>>
>>  logout, and log back in.
>>
>> "
> 
> That's not the only problem with xinit's notes — they're entirely broken. Each "notes-append" you do creates its own separate block of text that the notes code formats/wraps individually.

The special handling is only implemented for the set command and it is
only applied after the concatenation. The result is written back into
the variable.

Maybe it would be better to do the transformation only when reading the
option?

https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/src/port1.0/portutil.tcl?rev=134838#L519

Rainer