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On Wednesday 04 March 2015 05:48:15 Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 150304 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 04 March 2015 01:06:58 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> >> ... zip is an absolute dependancy of gcc and seamonkey ... |
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> > A word to the wise: dependency. No As. |
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> You mean "A's" or more accurately "A" ... (grin). |
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Nope. Certainly not "A's" (ugh!), and not "A" either, since the only |
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number that's singular is 1. (You wouldn't say "my fruit bowl's empty - |
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it contains no apple.") |
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> Otherwise, why do Gentooers say 'dependency' when they mean |
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> 'requirement' ? -- eg above, while Zip is not required for Gcc or |
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> Seamonkey or VICE VERSA, Zip could hardly depend on Seamonkey, but |
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> Seamonkey could require it. |
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> Making sense of Portage output + dox is difficult enough, as it is. |
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No argument there. I could say something rude about Americans and |
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English, but I'll contain myself. P) |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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