On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:24:15 +0100 Maurice van der Pot
<griffon26@gentoo.org> wrote:

| > I'm in favour of 2) personally, but others disagree. I'd like a
| > proper discussion on this before trying to get the GLEP through.
| 
| What I am still missing is a good argument _FOR_ negatives. We are
| talking about negatives within groups, right? I agree with you that if
| we choose 2, sooner or later it's going to get screwed up. We must
| have a better reason for allowing them than just the off chance that
| negatives  might be useful in a way we cannot forsee yet.

Reasons we want to allow negatives:
* They are useful in certain situations.
* They could reasonably be expected to work -- negatives work in other
places.
* Not supporting negatives simply because they cause complications is
basically admitting that we suck.

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