From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OgczU-0008Vj-9s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:22:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A157E0B54; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB05E0B4E for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:22:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.110] (c-24-245-20-2.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [24.245.20.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AFFA21B409F for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:22:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4C595B7F.80301@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:22:23 -0500 From: Jeremy Olexa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100701 Thunderbird/3.0.5 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] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-zope/datetime: ChangeLog datetime-2.12.5.ebuild References: <20100729202247.21DA22CE15@corvid.gentoo.org> <1280909122.25828.60.camel@tablet> In-Reply-To: <1280909122.25828.60.camel@tablet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 77921a93-e213-4b0f-ae6a-e931ed794e2b X-Archives-Hash: fc4df91ce6d0037ca25a7570ca5aa9fd On 08/04/2010 03:05 AM, Peter Volkov wrote: > =D0=92 =D0=92=D1=82=D1=80, 03/08/2010 =D0=B2 17:12 -0500, Jeremy Olexa = =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: >> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:22:47 +0000 (UTC), "Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar >> Arahesis (arfrever)" wrote: >>> >>> SRC_URI=3D"http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/${MY_PN:0:1}/${MY_P= N}/${MY_P}.tar.gz" >>> >> >> This is a perfect example of "over-complexification" - Why didn't you >> just use "D" instead of "${MY_PN:0:1}" ? > > Just take a look at pypi.python.org repository structure. This URL can > be copy&pasted from one package into another package from the same > repository without any changes... > You can't copy/paste MY_PN, so while you are changing that, is it that=20 hard to change *one* more character? Of the 290 ebuilds that use pypi,=20 172 of them use MY_PN. 83 use ${PN:0:1} for which your argument holds=20 some water. As I said in the original message, I think we should strive=20 for user friendly-ness but I guess I might be alone in that opinion. =3D/ -Jeremy