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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-cdr/cdemu: metadata.xml ChangeLog cdemu-1.3.0.ebuild
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:25:00
Message-Id: 20101024192450.GA14994@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-cdr/cdemu: metadata.xml ChangeLog cdemu-1.3.0.ebuild by Eray Aslan
1 Hi all,
2
3 On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:45:01PM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote:
4 > On 21.10.2010 10:30, Peter Volkov wrote:
5 > > Nothing there applies here, since this USE flag has nothing to do with
6 > > archs/profiles...
7 >
8 > which will force some users to use double negative (-nocdemud, i.e. no
9 > no cdemud) which is rather convulated and should be avoided imho. While
10 > at it, we should try to make the wording on the devmanual clearer, that
11 > it only applies to arches/profiles
12
13 I realize I'm a little lateon this thread, so this is more just for the
14 record I guess.
15
16 I don't like no* use flags either, for the same reason that was given
17 above. -no* is a double negative and it should be avoided.
18
19 William

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