[Buildroot] [PATCH 00 of 15] packages: rename FOO_BAR_OPT into FOO_BAR_OPTS
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Oct 5 12:30:44 UTC 2014
Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,
On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 14:22:12 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> The reason these patches were part of the _OPT series was that due to
> the introduction of an extra letter, some alignment was broken. If we
> do not removal all alignment consistently, then how do you propose to
> handle this?
>
> a. do nothing, and thus let the alignment be broken
> b. expect the submitter of such renaming changes to fix the specific
> alignment issues he/she introduced? (which is painful (but not
> impossible) since the renaming typically happens with an automated
> command or script)
> c. remove all fragile alignment in one go, so that such problems do not occur.
>
> In my original patches I went for reasoning c.
> How would you handle the alignment issue instead?
Good question. For now, I'm tempted to say (a) :-)
Thomas
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