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From: "Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek.chauhan@...>
Subject: Re: [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 05:37:10 +0530
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
>> 2008-08-02 04:02:48 Zac Medico napisaƂ(a):
>> The names of other RESTRICT values are related to features which are
>> restricted. The new proposed value is intended for live ebuilds so its
>> name should be negation of this feature. I think that something like
>> RESTRICT=constant-sources would be better.
>
> Like I've said before, that particular convention is pretty
> worthless in my eyes. I'd much prefer RESTRICT=live-sources if we
> want to use a longer name.

How about we just skip the reversed-boolean-usage/it's-a-long-name
confusion/argument and just call it RESTRICT=tarballs ?

I know not all distfiles are tarballs, but it gets the message across
far better than "constant-sources" IMO :o)

-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan
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