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From: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow variable refs in HOMEPAGE
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 14:02:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170804140231.GD22159@stuge.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7a1f094-c9c0-fbc5-7fd7-7aad4e89e97c@gentoo.org>

Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> All this is to say that "easy to read" is in the eye of the beholder.
> For ebuilds in the tree, the beholder is usually the maintainer, which
> is why I think the choice should be left up to him.

I think what mgorny says is that locality of ebuilds is an important factor.


> Our ebuilds are bash programs, and in source code, "as little
> duplication as possible" is a strong contributor to "easy to read."

Here's an idea: Could a little bit of automated (but obviously checked!)
de-duplication be made [an optional] part of adding an ebuild into the
tree, and please everyone?


//Peter


  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-04 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-03 15:33 [gentoo-dev] Allow variable refs in HOMEPAGE Mike Gilbert
2017-08-03 15:54 ` Michał Górny
2017-08-03 20:56   ` Mike Gilbert
2017-08-03 23:10   ` Sam Jorna
2017-08-03 17:21 ` Jonas Stein
2017-08-07 14:05   ` Kent Fredric
2017-08-03 18:21 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-03 18:32   ` Michał Górny
2017-08-03 18:57   ` Mike Gilbert
2017-08-03 19:12     ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-03 19:39       ` Mike Gilbert
2017-08-03 19:56         ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-03 20:46           ` Mike Gilbert
2017-08-03 22:33           ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-08-04  3:24             ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-04  6:50               ` Michał Górny
2017-08-04 13:43                 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-04 14:02                   ` Peter Stuge [this message]
2017-08-04  6:51               ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-08-03 19:39   ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-08-03 19:34 ` Ulrich Mueller

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