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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support
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twofourtysix wrote:

>On 07/07/05, Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org> wrote:
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>>I would be in favor of EAPI= or an even shorter variable name.
>>
>>strlen(EBUILD_FORMAT) * 19546 = 249K
>>strlen(EAPI) * 19546 = 77K
>>strlen(EV) *  19546 = 39K
>>
>>Where 19546 is the number if ebuilds in the tree as.
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<sarcasm>

>If you're that interested in saving space on variable names, why not
>make an eclass called, say, a.eclass, that aliases all the existing
>'long' names (DESCRIPTION, SRC_URI, RDEPEND, DEPEND, IUSE, src_unpack,
>...) onto 'x', 'y', 'z' and so on? Yes, another eclass would make the
>tree slightly bigger, but you'd save that many times over once you
>changed a few hundred ebuilds to use it.
>
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</sarcasm>
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