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On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 03:17 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:05:35 -0500 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> wrote: |
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> | The words AUXFILE EBUILD MISCFILE DISTFILE could be using shorter |
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> | names such as AUX EBD MSC DST like the existing vdb CONTENTS |
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> | files does for objects dirs and symlinks. |
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> Would be interesting to see a comparison made between the space that |
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> would be saved by using less clear names here and, say, the space taken |
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> up by blank lines and comments in ebuilds... |
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Interesting, yes... but ebuilds are read by humans and it is necessary |
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to be comprehensible a lot more than the Manifest files are. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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