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Brian Harring wrote: |
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> The thing to note is that if you're relying on negation, it's going to |
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> bite you in the ass without efforts. A server subprofile pulling from |
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> a parent that holds desktop cruft will be forced to either |
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> A) reinvent the wheel (maintain their own USE list), as a sizable |
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> chunk of users do via -* usage |
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> B) or very carefully watch people screwing around with the parent, |
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> tagging in a new desktop USE var, and adding the matching negation. |
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One would hope that some minimal effort of communication to the |
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maintainers of inheriting profiles by people changing the ancestor |
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profiles would prevent the need for this. |
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Donnie |
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