From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5BI0dLJ022863 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:00:39 GMT Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id f1so497295rne for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:00:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qofqATiL+UJHXv4Ye5wq2DyijPfxSzsOe69htkySKPQqytNWNJlPAZQsZgiEnNDhm7eZ1nriWUSJ02ICwTGvdWdYnFA2nmat9TvirFSClwqqcanWrkHJZbX60H2m3oJf6txG5qvyF2e6BsyH+5hGQXRMav2ajtJo9nPZJzuL670= Received: by 10.38.86.31 with SMTP id j31mr204952rnb; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.39.1.73 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5e0a35ef05061111008af9c17@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:00:48 -0600 From: Joshua Baergen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering In-Reply-To: <200506111831.26576@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050606222623.GI9084@kaf.zko.hp.com> <1118479689.13125.52.camel@rivendell> <5e0a35ef05061108217348b74b@mail.gmail.com> <200506111831.26576@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j5BI0dLJ022863 X-Archives-Salt: 1fcc1cba-c009-4d36-b2e2-893af4e848ba X-Archives-Hash: e1de80b1bca8c30051f964f8f660ab6e On 6/11/05, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Saturday 11 June 2005 17:21, Joshua Baergen wrote: > > I don't > > care what order they're in. It's not like there are 100 keywords or > > something, > Wait until ppc-od, x86-fbsd and amd64-fbsd keywords make their way into the > tree... the problem there is worst, and the alphabetical order is really > simpler to manage. > > -- > Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò > Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64) > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ > > > > Point taken :P I knew that was coming, but I didn't think about it when I wrote that. Personally, I would support any policy as to avoid different people putting different meanings into the orders, especially if there are groups of people who believe that everyone should do it their way (maybe everyone should). I also think things like information pertaining to developer platforms shouldn't be put into variable ordering. When I write software I don't expect people to understand intricacies of my design decisions and requirements from the order I call functions or the order I give to my parameter assignments, despite some rule of thumb I or others believe is the right way. Not everyone thinks like me, and that's what comments and external documentation are for. -- Joshua Baergen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list