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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:32:31
Message-Id: 1632695.hrFkCyZsKR@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Sunday 02 August 2015 22:22:28 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:14:47 -0400
3 >
4 > NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@g.o> wrote:
5 > > ^^ has the pleasant side effect of being easier to read, as a user.
6 > > The user receives a message saying "at-most-one-of" instead of some
7 > > convoluted other expression that they don't understand.
8 > >
9 > > I am all for the use of ^^ add the default for this reason.
10 > >
11 > > Additionally, ?? has the same effect of being easy to understand as
12 > > the description in the error message is in plain English.
13 >
14 > If you cared about readability, you'd use pkg_pretend.
15
16 No.