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On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 19:58:13 -0400 |
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"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 00:49:57 +0100 |
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> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 19:39:33 -0400 |
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> > "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > The two ways are not the same, and there is a reason sets exist in |
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> > > the first place. People seem to be over looking that fact. I did |
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> > > not add sets. They are not new. I am simply trying to expand |
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> > > their use. |
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> > Sets exist because people keep saying "let's have sets!" without |
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> > agreeing on what sets actually are or how they are to be used. |
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> Do they need to agree? Isn't Gentoo about choice? Maybe your use of |
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> sets is different from mine. Is that not acceptable to have choice? |
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Well yes, they do need to agree, because otherwise when two different |
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developers put sets in a profile expecting different effects, then at |
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least two developers are going to end up confused, disappointed, and |
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quite probably breaking user systems. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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