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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new global use flag and a new category
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:33:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408301633.22942.carlo@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040829214235.5115ef57.spider@gentoo.org>

On Sunday 29 August 2004 21:42, Spider wrote:
> I'd object to the use of the word "final" for this, since its ambigous
> and hard to comprehend its meaning.  I'd suggest finding a better word
> to describe the flag and its function.

Flags are expected to have comprehensive descriptions and everyone, who 
installed a kde application by hand, will get it w/o any description. In 
which way do you think it's ambigous? If you don't like it, please come up 
with a better name.


Carsten

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-30 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-26 15:56 [gentoo-dev] new global use flag and a new category Carsten Lohrke
2004-08-26 16:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-08-26 16:41   ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-08-26 16:46     ` Caleb Tennis
2004-08-27 13:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-28 22:31   ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-08-29 17:44     ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-29 18:10       ` Carsten Lohrke
2004-08-29 18:32         ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-30 10:05           ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-08-28  9:58 ` Markus Nigbur
2004-08-29 19:42 ` Spider
2004-08-30  8:51   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2004-08-30 11:07     ` Mike Frysinger
2004-08-30 14:33   ` Carsten Lohrke [this message]
2004-09-01 20:47     ` [gentoo-dev] " William Hubbs

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