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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: dev-libs/libgit2/
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 12:37:29
Message-Id: 20151010143712.3a7f07ce@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: dev-libs/libgit2/ by hasufell
1 On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 14:25:28 +0200
2 hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 10/10/2015 02:24 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
5 > > On 10-10-2015 14:19:44 +0200, hasufell wrote:
6 > >>> +RDEPEND="
7 > >>> + !libressl? ( dev-libs/openssl:0 )
8 > >>> + libressl? ( dev-libs/libressl )
9 > >>> + sys-libs/zlib
10 > >>> + net-libs/http-parser
11 > >>
12 > >> Please order deps alphabetically (I know I added libressl without
13 > >> reordering, but that was just to keep the diff as small as
14 > >> possible).
15 > >
16 > > Is this a policy
17 >
18 > It is undocumented policy.
19
20
21 It is useless style nitpick. Go maintain the whole tree if you want your
22 style to be the only true one :)
23
24 Sometimes it is indeed better to sort alphabetically, sometimes
25 upstream's configure.ac/CMakeLists.txt/whatever ordering is better.
26 Whatever minimizes chances of missing a dep change on version bump and
27 accommodates best maintainer is policy...

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