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From: Luke Graham <luke@trolltech.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portage.py hacking
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:23:09 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200305300923.09685.luke@trolltech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030529225432.144ffe6d.daniel.armyr@home.se>

On Fri, 30 May 2003 06:54 am, Daniel Armyr wrote:
> >It'll put hair on your chest!
>
> That is true, but it will make sure that hair you get is gray by the time
> you get it. No offense to the developers of Portage who hae done an
> excellent job, but the portage code is pretty much as unreadable as code
> can get. I was working on a few patches until I realised the only way to
> understand it would be line by line debugging. Once understood though, it
> is an excellent piece of code.

It was hard to write, it should be hard to read! ;)

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-05-29 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-29 17:20 [gentoo-dev] portage.py hacking Kurt V. Hindenburg
2003-05-29 17:21 ` Riyad Kalla
2003-05-29 20:54   ` Daniel Armyr
2003-05-29 23:23     ` Luke Graham [this message]

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