On 12:46 Sun 07 Sep , Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > I personally agree with several others who have replied to this thread. > The reduction in lines of code/characters seems to introduce an uglier > syntax which is harder to read with questionable benefits.
One of the great things about ebuilds is that they're very natural to write in most cases, if you can manage to build the program by hand. Raising this barrier of entry for questionable benefit seems like a bad idea. We don't need to make it any harder to begin contributing to Gentoo. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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