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 1NWWEy-0001cO-UR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:36:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39A82E0683; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:36:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.146]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02656E0683 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:36:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so249454eyg.40 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:36:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=BEaClaGqNgdAY8texkeiyyuCrQ7dAg5+uGSKeah1a8Y=; b=ObKP5YUIswuw3XD2XW4xvE8RJ+pNRLrG+LZxQF1bg8EszHtjU3J22ewUj6WhxnSXe5 eP3qeCgXlj0lPX+2JBM28ziN8Ubpo4930dzUo1ts8zWOuWKErgE1XQ4MFg+wZObO2a7O Tw638Ns+9Xkj7y27CLW/8Vod1s4b7yMsdZswU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KBAUuk2A6Cthak6QmrYo7r7swZXEoNnnb9ZaJJ79aGfCZcsHlev7yRZ5Jkzy0xt8WN XOmZjqYAKcV7gvzgoFiyTeHzh7qPtzWaZr2FVVWId1nAMN6Z4ZjZrjYIF6zy9GZnQ/1u 2rt70lq9vevc4tbVR2qVja2qNQyPlxFUmGQq4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.87.20 with SMTP id x20mr1551062wee.158.1263738991273; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:36:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100117142956.125b2e18@gentoo.org> References: <2e0007041001131040l7af9e61fsd0e5618305f99a23@mail.gmail.com> <20100113220130.6e2f22c4@gentoo.org> <19282.36075.591.615611@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <82dd739f1001170047y5e5a445aj3dbb67ddb37c8d5e@mail.gmail.com> <20100117103043.55776971@gentoo.org> <82dd739f1001170150v47b8396buefaa892167fac4c7@mail.gmail.com> <20100117110104.0b593d33@gentoo.org> <82dd739f1001170311o14aafd13n8a140fc4c9ab487@mail.gmail.com> <20100117142956.125b2e18@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:36:31 +0000 Message-ID: <82dd739f1001170636o71efa3c8qc2f4d754a6717411@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Fill column From: Ciaran McCreesh To: Christian Faulhammer Cc: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6888a5d7-c708-439a-9b0b-b424755ea276 X-Archives-Hash: 6894e8f04eb66aeb0ec8fc703b2c069d 2010/1/17 Christian Faulhammer : > =A0git blame breakage is no argument here, as the initial import damages > that anyway. No, that's still useful, since it shows things that've been around since the beginning and that haven't been tidied up. >=A0Usually everyone agrees on 80 characters 80 characters is for people who use dumb terminals that don't support any other size. It's annoyingly restrictive for anything else. > Derivating from that must be justified better than "it fits my screen". No, changing it from what it is currently requires better justification than "a piece of hardware that no-one's used for twenty years does it that way". Also, please stop stealthily changing bits of wrapping as you go along. That's even worse. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh