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| From: | Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-dev] Re: QA bikeshed: killing USE=dedicated in favor of uniform USE=client+server | ||
| Date: | Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:19:30 | ||
| Message-Id: | slrnmtch2b.mrr.martin@lounge.imp.fu-berlin.de | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] QA bikeshed: killing USE=dedicated in favor of uniform USE=client+server by Alexander Berntsen |
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| 1 | Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@g.o> wrote: |
| 2 | > |
| 3 | > - -1. The way "dedicated" is used in games ebuilds is a very established |
| 4 | > term that all gamers know and expect to behave in a specific way. |
| 5 | > This will mess with our users. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | How do you know what the users know and expect? |
| 8 | When installing a game, I was regularly surprised by the meaning |
| 9 | of this USE-flag and had to read its description several times |
| 10 | to be sure that I understand what is going on. |
| 11 | Remember that not only permanent gamers install games occassionally. |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: QA bikeshed: killing USE=dedicated in favor of uniform USE=client+server | hasufell <hasufell@g.o> |