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On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:01:20PM -0400, Indi wrote: |
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> Sounds like the old "6 of one, a half-dozen of the other" to me... |
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> What makes the subtractive method better? |
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This is how I interpret Alan's message: |
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For certain flags when you enable it for a package you will have to |
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also enable it for its dependencies. So you'll have to chase down the |
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dependency tree if you enable a flag for a user package and several of |
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the libraries it uses need the flag too, which may end up requiring |
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doing several emerge --pretend cycles to sort out. |
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Whereas if you subtract functionality, you usually won't have to |
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change the libraries. (The corollary being that if you are going to |
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remove functionality from the libraries, you should do so by globally |
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removing the use flag, rather than on the package level.) |
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W |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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