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From: Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:36:42
Message-Id: 48CAA8B8.2080200@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile by Donnie Berkholz
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4 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
5 > On 12:46 Sun 07 Sep , Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
6 >> I personally agree with several others who have replied to this thread.
7 >> The reduction in lines of code/characters seems to introduce an uglier
8 >> syntax which is harder to read with questionable benefits.
9 >
10 > One of the great things about ebuilds is that they're very natural to
11 > write in most cases, if you can manage to build the program by hand.
12 > Raising this barrier of entry for questionable benefit seems like a bad
13 > idea. We don't need to make it any harder to begin contributing to
14 > Gentoo.
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16 +42
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18 - -- Arun
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