>>>>> On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote: >> Why only "similarly to EAPI 4" and not identical with it? The >> latter would follow the principle of least surprise.
> Well, the defaults are identical. And DOCS as non-array was never > supported. Yes, unfortunately some eclasses support DOCS only as an array, others only as a space-separated list. IMHO, when such code is touched, it should be changed in a way that both forms are supported, i.e. to behave like the EAPI 4 default. Ulrich