On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 03:17 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:05:35 -0500 Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | The words AUXFILE EBUILD MISCFILE DISTFILE could be using shorter > | names such as AUX EBD MSC DST like the existing vdb CONTENTS > | files does for objects dirs and symlinks. > > Would be interesting to see a comparison made between the space that > would be saved by using less clear names here and, say, the space taken > up by blank lines and comments in ebuilds...
Interesting, yes... but ebuilds are read by humans and it is necessary to be comprehensible a lot more than the Manifest files are. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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