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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:23:14 -0200
From: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@wait4.org>
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Subject: Re: substitutions in pkg-plist
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:53:48 -0200
Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez@wait4.org> wrote:

> This works, but it is not clear why %%whatever%% macros fail silently.

The point is not exactly "fail silently", but why the %D prefixing is
explicitly necessary?

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Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez                   rnsanchez@wait4.org
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