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On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:22:42 -0700 Donnie Berkholz |
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<dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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| So the best fix for this is not just retaining two ways to say the |
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| same thing but actually expanding it? (!foo vs nofoo). That feels |
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| really wrong. |
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The Vim / ncurses example I posted earlier is perhaps a more practical |
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illustration of the same point. The problem is, any system that doesn't |
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allow forcing as well as masking use flags leads to ugly cases needing |
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either !arch? or weirdly named (e.g. noncurses) USE flags. Without use |
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forcing, we have to have a mixture of foo and nofoo flags including |
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cases where there are both foo and nofoo for the same value of foo. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk |
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