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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 21:22:46
Message-Id: 20150802222228.128f91e2@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies by NP-Hardass
1 On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:14:47 -0400
2 NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@g.o> wrote:
3 > ^^ has the pleasant side effect of being easier to read, as a user.
4 > The user receives a message saying "at-most-one-of" instead of some
5 > convoluted other expression that they don't understand.
6 >
7 > I am all for the use of ^^ add the default for this reason.
8 >
9 > Additionally, ?? has the same effect of being easy to understand as
10 > the description in the error message is in plain English.
11
12 If you cared about readability, you'd use pkg_pretend.
13
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15 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>