Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] has_version and built_with_use ignore package.provided
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:17:13
Message-Id: 44D6157C.9070606@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] has_version and built_with_use ignore package.provided by Paul Bredbury
1 Paul Bredbury wrote:
2 > Hi, I was directed to this list after my Portage patches were rejected.
3 > I'm hoping that someone *other* than the rejecter will look at the bug,
4 > and: See it as a valid bug, reopen it, and take SpanKY's keyboard away
5 > so he can't reject it again.
6 >
7 > The bug is: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139842
8 >
9 > Executive Summary: built_with_use returns the opposite answer to what
10 > it should, when the package referred to is not installed. I provided
11 > patches to stop that broken behaviour. People decided to talk about some
12 > mystical third state which doesn't exist in Boolean logic, and ended up
13 > convinced that black is white. And then proceeded to get themselves run
14 > over at the next Zebra crossing.
15
16 As I said on irc, you need to chill out; being a dick here won't help
17 you anymore than it did there.
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