On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 14:58, Andreas Voegele wrote:
> Martin Schlemmer writes:
> 
Hi

> > On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 13:34, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm currently fixing lots of ebuilds but it's hard work.
> >
> > also remember to convert to tabs!
> 
> DEPEND="virtual/glibc
>         >=sys-libs/db-3.2
> ^^^^^^^^
> 
> Do you put spaces or a single tab in front of dependencies?
> 
a single tab.

> I prefer 8 spaces since I've set the tabwidth to 4.  But if everbody
> else uses a tab I'll use a tab too.
> 
then i guess you will have to start using a tabwidth of 4, or live with
it, as it is the wish of drobbins :)

> I don't like the combination of tabs and spaces in RDEPEND very much
> though.  If the tabwidth is set to 4 the output looks like this:
> 
> DEPEND="virtual/glibc
>     virtual/x11
> RDEPEND="virtual/glibc
>      virtual/x11
> 
> There are 4 "spaces" at the beginning of the second line and 5
> "spaces" in the fourth line.
> 
> IMHO either a single tab should be used in both cases or 8 spaces
> should be used in the first case and 9 spaces in the second case.
> 
> On the other hand, there are more important things than the number of
> tabs and spaces in front of dependencies :-)
> 
true, but we need consistancy.

> -- 
> Andreas

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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa