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Patrick Lauer posted on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:36:47 +0200 as excerpted: |
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>> Now I see this proposal for making it a USE flag, which may or may not |
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>> be more appropriate, I don't know. I do know I'd love to see someone |
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>> explain the differences. |
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> It's a bit more selective. RESTRICT is a global "no, this is broken", |
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> the new useflag (or more fine-grained restrict?) says "there are tests, |
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> but they might make things explode" so that those that do want the tests |
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> can easily use them without making users sad puppied. And if there's |
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> anything we don't want it is more sad puppies. |
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Thanks. That makes things /much/ clearer! =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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