Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

[foser <foser@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 22:58 +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote:
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> Luca Barbato schrieb:
> > Stephen P. Becker wrote:
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> >>alpha++
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> > alpha++
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> once again, alpha++

It's not a vote, it's a discussion. You guys--.

As vapier indicates he's the whole reason this ever became a problem. He
was the one who started arbitrarily ordering keywords around creating a
keywords mess for people who did depend on order to perform tasks. I
guess the lesson here is if you just do things 'your way' (wr/l)ong
enough, people pick it up and it spreads.

The point is that with his reordering implicit information was lost for
no particular purpose. There was no added value in ordering keywords,
there's was no reason whatsoever to make the ordering inconsistent
within packages, it was an utterly pointless exercise in creating more
traffic on the servers.

- foser

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