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From: Roy Marples <roy@×××××××.name>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) [2]
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:32:49
Message-Id: 1198780112.2929.19.camel@uberpc.marples.name
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) [2] by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 18:11 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:03:27 +0000
3 > Roy Marples <roy@×××××××.name> wrote:
4 > > On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 17:43 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > > > Or to put it another way, you're objecting to painting the house
6 > > > pink rather than green because you don't like pink (because your
7 > > > last house was green too), ignoring that it's been demonstrated
8 > > > that when painted green, it's impossible to add a conservatory and
9 > > > central heating because the green paint will catch fire and kill
10 > > > everyone.
11 > >
12 > > Using your analogy you should then recognise that there is a strong
13 > > dislike for pink and should seek a new colour that allows the building
14 > > of said extensions.
15 >
16 > And what colour would that be? We've already ruled out purple, brown
17 > and yellow, and no-one has yet found any other colour of paint.
18
19 If there are no other colours then maybe you shouldn't install
20 extensions that only work with pink to the detriment of all other
21 colours of the spectrum.
22
23 Thanks
24
25 Roy
26
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