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Peter <pete4abw@×××××××.net> posted |
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pan.2006.06.14.20.11.26.154886@×××××××.net, excerpted below, on Wed, 14 |
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Jun 2006 16:11:26 -0400: |
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> I responded to this sentence: |
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>>>Interested in |
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>>>figuring out what use flags were turned off? Check out |
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>>>/usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults and other use.defaults files |
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>>>that correspond to your profile. |
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> I read that to mean "compare the base use.default with the other |
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> use.defaults file and note the differences." It could also read "look at |
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> the base use.default as well as the other use.default files." It was a |
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> case of semantics and an ambiguously worded sentence, not my inability to |
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> comprehend use.defaults. |
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<light dawns> Ooohhh, gotcha now!! You are right, that /is/ a bit |
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ambiguous. Obviously, neither I nor the author caught that. |
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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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