From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxQgE-0004if-MF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E92DE0473; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:31:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B11AE0473 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:31:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.255.255.39] (unknown [216.209.201.186]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B14964775 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:31:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <491094D3.1060609@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:30:43 -0500 From: Joe Peterson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reinstating eclasses References: <20081104174307.5bd3d834@gentoo.org> <491087C6.9030309@gentoo.org> <491092C9.5080301@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <491092C9.5080301@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 418ec91d-d499-42ba-86fe-9976bbd22d76 X-Archives-Hash: b965378237e24cc77aefaaa44478a647 Petteri R=C3=A4ty 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 rout= e. 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 u= sers so much, but we, as devs, need to see them, and we might as well be elega= nt where possible. -Joe