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On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 03:14:14 -0700 |
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Greg Turner <gmt@×××××.us> wrote: |
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> WTF is up with it? Why does it love the first Atom so much more than |
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> the others? |
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Historically, because it was defined that way. Now there are so many |
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special cases, heuristics and exceptions that there's no way of telling |
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what it will do... |
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> It could be such a useful feature, but, in practice, it just never |
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> seems to do what I want it to. Is it a bug? |
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The problem is that developers started wanting || to do "what they want |
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it to do" rather than "what it is defined to do", and that Portage |
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tried to give them that. Unfortunately, getting software to do "what you |
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expect" sometimes looks OK in the short term. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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