Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE groups) and negatives

[Olivier Crête]

On Tue, 2005-08-03 at 22:41 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:35:03 +0100 Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@g.o> wrote:
> | On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:21:17PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> | > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:24:15 +0100 Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@g.o> wrote:
> | >
> | > Reasons we want to allow negatives:
> | > * They are useful in certain situations.
> |
> | Can you give an example?
>
> No, but klieber probably can, since he was the main proponent of not
> disallowing negatives.
>
> Having said that, "I can't think of one" is by no means equal to "there
> are none". I can't think of any reason why anyone would ever possibly
> want to use XML for anything, for example, but I'm sure *someone*
> somewhere out there has a legit use for it.

But when no one on gentoo-dev can give one, that might be a hint that's
its not worth taking time to do.

-- 
Olivier Crête
tester@g.o
Gentoo Developer
x86 Security Liaison