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On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:46:42AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote |
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> So your actual problem is that you relied on an arbitrary behaviour of |
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> portage from the days when the standard was "whatever portage does |
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> today" and you are unhappy because for you that is now broken. |
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> But no-one ever promised you that behaviour in a stable API. |
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html#id2878339 |
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> Rule of Least Surprise: In interface design, always do the least |
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> surprising thing. |
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> (This is also widely known as the Principle of Least Astonishment.) |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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