From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27923 invoked by uid 1002); 29 May 2003 23:26:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 3981 invoked from network); 29 May 2003 23:26:10 -0000 From: Luke Graham Organization: Trolltech Australia To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:23:09 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: <200305291220.20424.khindenburg@cherrynebula.net> <002001c32606$bf281440$d628c480@rskwork> <20030529225432.144ffe6d.daniel.armyr@home.se> In-Reply-To: <20030529225432.144ffe6d.daniel.armyr@home.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200305300923.09685.luke@trolltech.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portage.py hacking X-Archives-Salt: 777f8f74-656b-4531-97fd-0b6ccc7e023a X-Archives-Hash: a0df433a4b07a26094bf74e9dec0318f 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! ;) -- luke -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list