On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 14:25:28 +0200
hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 10/10/2015 02:24 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > On 10-10-2015 14:19:44 +0200, hasufell wrote:
> >>> +RDEPEND="
> >>> + !libressl? ( dev-libs/openssl:0 )
> >>> + libressl? ( dev-libs/libressl )
> >>> + sys-libs/zlib
> >>> + net-libs/http-parser
> >>
> >> Please order deps alphabetically (I know I added libressl without
> >> reordering, but that was just to keep the diff as small as
> >> possible).
> > 
> > Is this a policy 
> 
> It is undocumented policy.


It is useless style nitpick. Go maintain the whole tree if you want your
style to be the only true one :)

Sometimes it is indeed better to sort alphabetically, sometimes
upstream's configure.ac/CMakeLists.txt/whatever ordering is better.
Whatever minimizes chances of missing a dep change on version bump and
accommodates best maintainer is policy...

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