On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Maciej Mrozowski <reave...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 25 of June 2011 22:32:43 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: >> *DEPEND=" >> !<X-2.0 >> !Y >> <A> >> <B> >> ... >> <Z> >> a? ( <X> ) >> b? ( <Y> ) >> c? ( >> <J> >> <K> >> ) >> " > > ^^ is actually the main point of my "ebuild formatting nazi" agenda (usually > followed by "oh why did you break formatting in my shiny ebuild!11, revert!" > chants by various developers in case I happened to touch packages of theirs). > > I never understood the reason after keeping deps not sorted alphabetically > where order doesn't matter - it's like someone purposely made ebuild harder to > read - it's counter productive. >
Well, the GNOME team likes to order it by "type" and "library heirarchy". So, libraries in one paragraph, then applications. Plain-C libraries first, followed by glib, and then glib-using libraries, and then gtk+, and gtk+-using libraries, then Python modules, etc. We also separate out lines with and without versions/blocks/use-conditionals in them to make them easier to read. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
