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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>This is the main problem with -@BLAH... Too frickin' nasty, and only |
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>supported because Kurt thinks we shouldn't protect our users from doing |
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>silly things. I'm inclined to agree... Personally I'm in favour of |
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>sticking in a big fat "DO NOT USE -@BLAH UNLESS YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND |
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>IT" in the docs and leaving it at that... |
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I'm all in favor of this provided that the exact USE flags that each |
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grouping specifies are clearly detailed in easily accessible |
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documentation. Perhaps for those of you who care to be kinder to less |
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knowledgeable users, a line such as "if USE flags are specified twice, |
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the latest specification will be used. If USE flags are specified more |
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than once..." Two sentences is all that's really necessary. |
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Perhaps I'm rusty on my set theory, but what would happen in the |
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following [rather ludicrous] case: USE="@GNOME @KDE -X"? Will it be -X |
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for all cases that don't expressly depend upon it, or is it additive, |
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and the two instances of +X in @GNOME and @KDE will override the one |
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instance of -X? |
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--Lina |
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