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On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:14:26 -0500 Chris Gianelloni |
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<wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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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> |
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| > 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 |
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| > taken 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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Sure. But the comparison would show whether or not it's going to make a |
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substantial difference. And if it does, there're other things that can |
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be done in the Manifest file that'll save a whole load of space too |
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(e.g. using $ to represent $PN, ! to represent files/, * to represent |
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ChangeLog and so on, since these characters aren't allowed in any |
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filename in the tree). |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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