Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

[Joshua Baergen <joshuabaergen@gmail.com>]

On 6/11/05, foser <foser@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 17:28 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > By lack of policy?
> 
> Well I'm sort of concerned by the fact that I have to state the obvious,
> but really by people reordering them for no reason.
> 
> It's not the lack of policy that is the problem here, it's the use of
> some self defined not uniform policy. There was no need for policy or
> regulation until some people set their own rules to play by, I really
> don't understand why that move gets defended by anyone.
> 
> - foser
> 
> 
> BodyID:123219267.2.n.logpart (stored separately)
> 
> 
But if the policy doesn't exist there is no reason for new developers
to play by the current rules.  The mentor certainly doesn't have to
mention it because it's not policy, it's not stated anywhere on the
devrel guide (unless I missed that section - it's certainly not within
the variable description section of the ebuild guide).

My point is that unless it's made policy there is no reason to expect
that everyone's going to follow what even a group of people consider
logical order.  Personally, if I'm looking through keywords, I don't
care what order they're in.  It's not like there are 100 keywords or
something, it should take a person paying attention long to look
through them and pick out any errors.  Therefore, I would not really
care what order I put the keywords in unless someone told me, "This is
the order to put them in."

I don't think people "set their own rules to play by" in spite of the
rules, but rather because they didn't know there were any.

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Joshua Baergen

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