From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j282TGnb009156 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 02:29:16 GMT Received: from tomts5.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.25] helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D8UTD-000485-C7 for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 02:29:15 +0000 Received: from sympatico.ca ([70.49.157.168]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with SMTP id <20050308022914.JKNA2988.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca> for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:29:14 -0500 Received: by sympatico.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:29:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:29:14 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE groups) and negatives Message-ID: <20050308022914.GB7493@sympatico.ca> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20050306162849.247c8c8f@snowdrop> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050306162849.247c8c8f@snowdrop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Archives-Salt: 47d4fad6-d9a9-49c6-aab7-a308a40709d9 X-Archives-Hash: 943f783be5d297507c540838116ebad3 050306 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > We need to decide upon a solution to the -flags problem. > The proposed solutions are: > 1) Disallow all negatives. Disadvantages: we don't tend to disallow things > just because users could shoot themselves in the foot with them. that's not a disadvantage, let alone a plural of them (smile): it's a tradition or merely a long-standing practice. is there an actual disadvantage to disallowing all negatives ? if not, that seems to be the simplest & least troublesome alternative. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : purslow@chass.utoronto.ca ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list