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On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:38:56 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: |
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> Marius Mauch wrote: |
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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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> Deprecating the old syntax sounds like a sensible action to get people |
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> shifted onto the new system. I imagine it would work very similarly to |
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> "emerge info" at the moment? |
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Speaking purely as a user, from a usability perspective it's a horrible |
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idea. Don't make me remember special things. To me there is no discernible |
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difference between "system" and "@system", except that I have to remember |
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to prefix the latter over and over again. Different things need different |
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names. Doesn't portage have more pressing problems? In the last 6 years of |
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using Gentoo I cannot remember a single instance where the difference |
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between system and world even mattered to me from an operational point of |
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view. |
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Holger |