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> On 16 Sep 2017, at 17:16, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Saturday, 16 September 2017 15:35:44 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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>> What really got up my nose, as mentioned above, was doing an emerge -s on |
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>> thing-provisioning-tools and getting told it was "tools for thin |
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>> provisioning". |
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> I raised a bug report about that once, against use.desc. There was a flurry |
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> of activity as devs looked around their own bailiwicks and fixed them, then |
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> everything went quiet again. |
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Really? |
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I started threads at least twice on gentoo-dev (now years ago), and it seemed to have no effect. |
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I've given up expecting USE descriptions to be useful. |
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> It's an example of no designer or coder enjoying any of the still important |
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> bits left over when the acceptance test is passed. |
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+1 |
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Stroller. |