Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: twofourtysix <twofourtysix@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:40:19
Message-Id: 6fd8e3c05070707376816f93e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support by Ned Ludd
1 On 07/07/05, Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> wrote:
2 > I would be in favor of EAPI= or an even shorter variable name.
3 >
4 > strlen(EBUILD_FORMAT) * 19546 = 249K
5 > strlen(EAPI) * 19546 = 77K
6 > strlen(EV) * 19546 = 39K
7 >
8 > Where 19546 is the number if ebuilds in the tree as.
9
10 If you're that interested in saving space on variable names, why not
11 make an eclass called, say, a.eclass, that aliases all the existing
12 'long' names (DESCRIPTION, SRC_URI, RDEPEND, DEPEND, IUSE, src_unpack,
13 ...) onto 'x', 'y', 'z' and so on? Yes, another eclass would make the
14 tree slightly bigger, but you'd save that many times over once you
15 changed a few hundred ebuilds to use it.
16
17 --
18 gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>