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On 12:46 Sun 07 Sep , Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: |
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> I personally agree with several others who have replied to this thread. |
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> The reduction in lines of code/characters seems to introduce an uglier |
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> syntax which is harder to read with questionable benefits. |
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One of the great things about ebuilds is that they're very natural to |
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write in most cases, if you can manage to build the program by hand. |
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Raising this barrier of entry for questionable benefit seems like a bad |
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idea. We don't need to make it any harder to begin contributing to |
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Gentoo. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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