On 12:46 Sun 07 Sep     , Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
> I personally agree with several others who have replied to this thread.  
> The reduction in lines of code/characters seems to introduce an uglier  
> syntax which is harder to read with questionable benefits.

One of the great things about ebuilds is that they're very natural to 
write in most cases, if you can manage to build the program by hand. 
Raising this barrier of entry for questionable benefit seems like a bad 
idea. We don't need to make it any harder to begin contributing to 
Gentoo.

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Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com