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Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> posted |
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20080910034311.0efd25d1.genone@g.o, excerpted below, on Wed, 10 |
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Sep 2008 03:43:11 +0200: |
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> Maybe the best solution is to drop the non-prefixed versions of 'world' |
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> and 'system' completely .... |
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Now that's an idea. It /would/ avoid the confusion, since the new |
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concept would come with a new name, without the legacy meaning associated |
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with it to confuse people. |
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What I'd really prefer would be a "legacy" message much like what portage |
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is currently spitting out for the output module (that I see every time I |
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run esearch, or the old earch) if people use world, telling them to use |
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@system and @world instead... for 2.2 at least. Do the same for system |
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but of course @system is a direct parallel there. Then for 2.3 or |
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whatever, remove both world and system legacies and force the @ versions. |
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However, as I believe I said earlier in the thread, I'm quite aware I'm |
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not the one implementing it, so whatever you go with I'll happily use, |
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regardless of whether it's what I would have thought best, or not. |
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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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