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On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 00:49:57 +0100 |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 19:39:33 -0400 |
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> "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > The two ways are not the same, and there is a reason sets exist in |
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> > the first place. People seem to be over looking that fact. I did |
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> > not add sets. They are not new. I am simply trying to expand their |
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> > use. |
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> Sets exist because people keep saying "let's have sets!" without |
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> agreeing on what sets actually are or how they are to be used. |
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Do they need to agree? Isn't Gentoo about choice? Maybe your use of |
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sets is different from mine. Is that not acceptable to have choice? |
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> Sets remain half-baked because it turns out they don't make |
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> consistent sense in different contexts when you give them a |
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> non-superficial amount of thought. |
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Much of the world is half baked, but we manage despite such. There is |
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much to be said about over thinking over engineering something. |
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Few if anything in life is perfect. Many of the things we depend on are |
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far from perfect. C'est la vie. |
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This must be a Gentoo thing. Sets have nothing to do with me. Seems they |
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have been around since ~2009. Someone coded in support for them etc. |
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Seems some find use for them, and others have objection. |
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Having been around Gentoo for some time, and just now coming across |
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sets. I find them quite useful! Just ran into one limitation of them. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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