From: Joe Peterson <lavajoe@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reinstating eclasses
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:30:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <491094D3.1060609@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <491092C9.5080301@gentoo.org>
Petteri Räty wrote:
> The names of eclasses aren't shown to users and I think figuring out a
> new name is a minor inconvenience so I would just go with the safe route.
I disagree: we should use care in choosing names, since these names will be
around for a long time. Using an ugly name might not be visible to the users
so much, but we, as devs, need to see them, and we might as well be elegant
where possible.
-Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-04 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-04 16:43 [gentoo-dev] Reinstating eclasses Christoph Mende
2008-11-04 17:35 ` Zac Medico
2008-11-04 18:22 ` Petteri Räty
2008-11-04 18:30 ` Joe Peterson [this message]
2008-11-04 18:43 ` Joe Peterson
2008-11-04 19:15 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2008-11-04 19:19 ` Joe Peterson
2008-11-04 19:23 ` Christoph Mende
2008-11-04 19:30 ` Joe Peterson
2008-11-04 23:30 ` Duncan
2008-11-05 16:19 ` Steve Long
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