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From: Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:23:59
Message-Id: 42CD6463.3000207@egr.msu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support by twofourtysix
1 twofourtysix wrote:
2
3 >On 07/07/05, Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>I would be in favor of EAPI= or an even shorter variable name.
7 >>
8 >>strlen(EBUILD_FORMAT) * 19546 = 249K
9 >>strlen(EAPI) * 19546 = 77K
10 >>strlen(EV) * 19546 = 39K
11 >>
12 >>Where 19546 is the number if ebuilds in the tree as.
13 >>
14 >>
15 >
16 >
17 >
18 <sarcasm>
19
20 >If you're that interested in saving space on variable names, why not
21 >make an eclass called, say, a.eclass, that aliases all the existing
22 >'long' names (DESCRIPTION, SRC_URI, RDEPEND, DEPEND, IUSE, src_unpack,
23 >...) onto 'x', 'y', 'z' and so on? Yes, another eclass would make the
24 >tree slightly bigger, but you'd save that many times over once you
25 >changed a few hundred ebuilds to use it.
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 </sarcasm>
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