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Arcady Genkin wrote: |
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> Two questions: |
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> 1. What makes tabbed indentation in ebuilds so much better than |
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> indentation with spaces? I know *plenty* of reasons *against* using |
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> tab characters, but I must be missing something obvious, because I |
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> know no reasons in favor of tabs. |
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I have no preference of one over the other but I prefer one over both. |
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> 2. Even if it turns out tabs are somehow better than spaces, why do |
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> we want to be so fascist[1][2] about it? Why don't we let the ebuild |
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> maintainer to decide which approach suits his philosophy, editor and |
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> habits? We can still require that all indents are 4 spaces wide; I'm |
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> only talking about tabs/spaces issue. |
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Because any large project must maintain a level of consistencey. While |
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tab vs spaces is a minor issue it is part of a larger whole and as such |
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is important. My mother used to pound in to me: "Mind your pennies and |
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your dollars will take care of themselves." I don't know who she was |
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quoting but the same logic applies here. |
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Where there isn't any place I know of the specificly spells out the |
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tab/space usage in an ebuild if you look at /usr/portage/skel.ebuild you |
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will see that tabs are uses. |
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> Footnotes: |
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> [1] Talking about bulk force-tabbifying ebuilds. |
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> [2] Please note the smiley in the subject line before you stone me |
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> for my choice of words. |
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Sandy McArthur |