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On Fri, 2004-04-30, 14:18:39 +0200, in <4092441F.70205@×××××.de>, sf |
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<sf@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> Drake Wyrm wrote: |
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> >On Fri, 2004-04-30, 02:31:39 -0400, in |
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> ><200404300231.39292.vapier@g.o>, Mike Frysinger |
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> ><vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> > |
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> >>On Friday 30 April 2004 02:25 am, Drake Wyrm wrote: |
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> ... |
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> >>ive personally used the fact that use echos the flag when building |
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> >>packages ... for example, a package with a crapy build system: |
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> >>for vid in `use sdl` `use X` `use opengl` `use svga` ; do |
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> >> make clean |
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> >> make VID=$vid |
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> >> mv binary ../binary.$vid |
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> >>done |
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> > |
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> > |
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> >That's beautiful. Now, there's an example of elegance! |
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> |
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> Beautiful? It is an example of code replication! |
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Maybe. Then again, maybe I just get a kick out of seeing somebody do |
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something useful with anything I consider to be useless (e.g. the output |
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from `use`). |
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-- |
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Batou: Hey, Major... You ever hear of "human rights"? |
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Kusanagi: I understand the concept, but I've never seen it in action. |
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--Ghost in the Shell |
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