From: Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE groups) and negatives
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:35:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050308173503.GD23754@kfk4ever.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050308152117.543b7e36@snowdrop>
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On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:21:17PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:24:15 +0100 Maurice van der Pot
> <griffon26@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Reasons we want to allow negatives:
> * They are useful in certain situations.
Can you give an example?
> * They could reasonably be expected to work -- negatives work in other
> places.
I don't doubt that it will work.
> * Not supporting negatives simply because they cause complications is
> basically admitting that we suck.
Only if we are the reason this particular implementation of negatives is
chosen. You won't catch me saying either one of these is an optimal
solution. In this case I think we're trying to select the lesser evil.
Regards,
Maurice.
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Maurice van der Pot
Gentoo Linux Developer griffon26@gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org
Creator of BiteMe! griffon26@kfk4ever.com http://www.kfk4ever.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-08 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-06 16:28 [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE groups) and negatives Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-07 19:24 ` Maurice van der Pot
2005-03-08 15:21 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-08 17:35 ` Maurice van der Pot [this message]
2005-03-08 22:41 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-08 23:17 ` Olivier Crête
2005-03-08 23:26 ` Jason Wever
2005-03-08 2:29 ` Philip Webb
2005-03-08 19:14 ` Jerome Brown
2005-03-08 19:51 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-03-08 20:43 ` Jerome Brown
2005-03-08 22:43 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-09 12:54 ` Maurice van der Pot
2005-03-09 16:21 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-08 23:48 ` Luca Barbato
2005-03-09 1:18 ` Marius Mauch
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