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From: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@comcast.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64]  Re: Re: recommended USE flags
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:45:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155415508.12932.3.camel@scarlatti.leonora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608122218.22034.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>

On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 22:18 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:

> so instead of a short but useful hint, which is enough in 95% of cases,  

His point is precisely that it's NOT useful enough.

> concentrated in two files, you want the user to search all packages and read 
> thousands of descriptions just to figure out if he wants the flag or not?

grep can do that quite efficiently.

> Are you insane?

Are you rude?

-- Vladimir

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-12 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-11 12:29 [gentoo-amd64] recommended USE flags Rafael Barrera Oro
2006-08-11 16:47 ` Ahmed Ammar
2006-08-11 17:03   ` Dan Clark
2006-08-11 18:31     ` Sam Barlow
2006-08-11 17:01 ` Roman Zilka
2006-08-11 22:01   ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2006-08-11 22:01 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-08-12 10:13   ` Peter Humphrey
2006-08-12 12:39     ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2006-08-12 12:49       ` Simon Stelling
2006-08-12 18:44         ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2006-08-12 17:35       ` [gentoo-amd64] " Peter Humphrey
2006-08-12 18:35         ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2006-08-12 20:18           ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-08-12 20:45             ` Vladimir G. Ivanovic [this message]
2006-08-12 20:58               ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-08-13  8:48                 ` Peter Humphrey
2006-08-14  9:22                   ` Peter Humphrey
2006-08-13 10:17                 ` Simon Stelling
2006-08-13 10:20             ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2006-08-13 16:56               ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-08-13 19:34                 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2006-08-13 16:45           ` [gentoo-amd64] " Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-08-14 12:16   ` [gentoo-amd64] " Conway S. Smith
2006-08-12  0:05 ` Richard Fish
2006-08-12 20:18   ` J'raxis 270145
2006-08-13  8:57     ` Peter Humphrey
2006-08-13 10:20       ` Simon Stelling
2006-08-13 10:43         ` Peter Humphrey

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