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From: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] "Lazy" use flags?
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:53:15
Message-Id: CAATnKFBoqQSnEhMRvURXitDUf+OjAWcyuiCDZjCQh-0CLfUHtA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] "Lazy" use flags? by "M. J. Everitt"
1 On 12 February 2016 at 03:48, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote:
2 > Well, that's obvious ........
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5 Makes more sense if you read this:
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7 > Any file in this directory, directories of other profiles or top-level "profiles" directory that begins with "package." or "use."
8 > can be more than just a flat file. If it is a directory, then all the files in that directory will be sorted in ascending
9 > alphabetical order by file name and summed together as if it were a single file.
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11 And so if that's considered a "Single logical file" and the normal
12 behaviour is "Append to the single file", then by proxy, the logical
13 place to append in a multi-file scenario is the "last" one.
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16 Kent
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18 KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL