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From: "Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:58:29
Message-Id: 42CC7EFB.2020308@ieee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support by Sven Wegener
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4 Sven Wegener wrote:
5 > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:41:43PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
6 >
7 >>On Wednesday 06 July 2005 08:20 pm, Sven Wegener wrote:
8 >>
9 >>>We would like to introduce a new ebuild variable named EBUILD_FORMAT,
10 >>
11 >>seems like the name is much longer than it needs to be ... what's wrong with
12 >>say 'EVER' ?
13 >
14 >
15 > It's fine too. EBUILD_FORMAT was just the name that fell in
16 > #gentoo-portage once we discussed about it.
17 >
18 > Sven
19 >
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21 EVER looks like the english word 'ever'; what does it stand for? EBUILD
22 VERSION? If so, how about EVERSION? Since when was variable name length
23 a problem? Go with whatever best describes the variable and is easy to
24 figure out.
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26 Nathan
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support Sven Wegener <swegener@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support Kito <kito@g.o>