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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE Flag Grouping) Updates
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 23:05:28
Message-Id: 20041018000514.21fd680b@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE Flag Grouping) Updates by Francesco Riosa
1 On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 23:39:46 +0200 Francesco Riosa
2 <francesco@×××××××××.it> wrote:
3 | The GLEP specify that:
4 | Groups should *not* generally contain negative USE flags, as this
5 | would lead to confusion.
6 |
7 | my two cents are to *allow* negative USE flags and parse them
8 | *before* the additive ones.
9
10 I'm against this, on the grounds that it's totally different from the
11 way everything else is handled USE-wise.
12
13 --
14 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips)
15 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
16 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE Flag Grouping) Updates Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>