From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dqa6R-0004l6-9H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:23:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j67HNLma032635; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:23:21 GMT Received: from egr.msu.edu (jeeves.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j67HKUnR021162 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:20:31 GMT Received: from [35.9.44.33] (caffeine [35.9.44.33]) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j67HKUxW001012 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:20:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42CD6463.3000207@egr.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:20:35 -0400 From: Alec Warner <warnera6@egr.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support References: <20050707002002.GH20687@lightning.stealer.net> <42CC7EFB.2020308@ieee.org> <88F6D0D3-99A2-4C37-A233-D34EFB1EE5F3@gentoo.org> <200507070047.35274.vapier@gentoo.org> <1120738789.1972.0.camel@localhost> <6fd8e3c05070707376816f93e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6fd8e3c05070707376816f93e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 10d9c887-52ba-497f-896d-468875c8b3d0 X-Archives-Hash: 5de86006616f3775b5b0881e3c407ae2 twofourtysix wrote: >On 07/07/05, Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org> wrote: > > >>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. >> >> > > > <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. > > > </sarcasm> <file:///H:/Satish/Desktop/> -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list