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On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 23:44:26 +0300 |
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Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote: |
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> Maybe. But splitting documentation of one issue into several |
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> documents may confuse readers. We already have "hyphen" in a |
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> category name being mentioned in the PMS, so this should be either |
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> clarified in the PMS or moved completely to the devmanual. |
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Maybe add a "but this set of options may be limited by invidual vendor conventions" |
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or similar, indicating that although Portage Specification is one way, that there is |
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at least one known subset of stricter behaviour elsewhere. |
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That way people don't get tricked into reading PMS and then using it as grounds |
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to break Gentoo policies. |
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It *should* go without saying, but its better to be assume the reader doesn't know |
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what "should go without saying" entails. |
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