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On 14:24 Sun 24 Oct , William Hubbs wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:45:01PM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote: |
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> > On 21.10.2010 10:30, Peter Volkov wrote: |
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> > > Nothing there applies here, since this USE flag has nothing to do with |
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> > > archs/profiles... |
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> > which will force some users to use double negative (-nocdemud, i.e. no |
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> > no cdemud) which is rather convulated and should be avoided imho. While |
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> > at it, we should try to make the wording on the devmanual clearer, that |
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> > it only applies to arches/profiles |
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> I realize I'm a little lateon this thread, so this is more just for the |
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> record I guess. |
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> I don't like no* use flags either, for the same reason that was given |
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> above. -no* is a double negative and it should be avoided. |
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Agreed. The argument that it's removing a feature is an implementation |
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detail that users don't and shouldn't have to care about at all. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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