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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