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From: "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: How not to discuss
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:44:58
Message-Id: 4A2653C6.70106@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: How not to discuss by Richard Freeman
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4 Richard Freeman wrote:
5 > Steven J Long wrote:
6 >> Getting into a nonsensical debate about PN being metadata seems to be
7 >> the level of the argument, so forgive me for not being very impressed.
8 >> (It's externally derived and in fact the whole point of the product;
9 >> unless someone is proposing losing PN and PV from filename, can we
10 >> *please* dismiss that argument as the irrelevance which it is?)
11 >>
12 >
13 > Without actually intending to open a new debate on that issue <cringes>,
14 > I'm actually a fan of NOT obtaining PN and PV from the filename. I've
15 > seen an approach like this used in various systems and I happen to like it:
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17 In which systems did you see this approach?
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19 Marijn
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23 If you cannot read my mind, then listen to what I say.
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25 Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML
26 <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode
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