On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:14:26 -0500 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 03:17 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:05:35 -0500 Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > wrote: | > | The words AUXFILE EBUILD MISCFILE DISTFILE could be using shorter | > | names such as AUX EBD MSC DST like the existing vdb CONTENTS | > | files does for objects dirs and symlinks. | > | > Would be interesting to see a comparison made between the space that | > would be saved by using less clear names here and, say, the space | > taken up by blank lines and comments in ebuilds... | | Interesting, yes... but ebuilds are read by humans and it is necessary | to be comprehensible a lot more than the Manifest files are.
Sure. But the comparison would show whether or not it's going to make a substantial difference. And if it does, there're other things that can be done in the Manifest file that'll save a whole load of space too (e.g. using $ to represent $PN, ! to represent files/, * to represent ChangeLog and so on, since these characters aren't allowed in any filename in the tree). -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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