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 j28HbJ72013681 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 17:37:19 GMT Received: from griffon26.demon.nl ([82.161.57.89] helo=griffon26.kfk4ever.com) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D8idx-00042Z-HY for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:37:17 +0000 Received: by griffon26.kfk4ever.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 11F26B11EBF; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:35:04 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:35:03 +0100 From: Maurice van der Pot To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE groups) and negatives Message-ID: <20050308173503.GD23754@kfk4ever.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20050306162849.247c8c8f@snowdrop> <20050307192415.GA23754@kfk4ever.com> <20050308152117.543b7e36@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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bajzpZikUji1w+G9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050308152117.543b7e36@snowdrop> X-PGP-Key: http://www.kfk4ever.com/~griffon26/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.kfk4ever.com/ X-Archives-Salt: 47bb9460-3851-46ea-9fee-5dfc38e50d4c X-Archives-Hash: cfef71f54d0bdda33d27b35db18716f1 --bajzpZikUji1w+G9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 > wrote: >=20 > 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. --=20 Maurice van der Pot Gentoo Linux Developer griffon26@gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org Creator of BiteMe! griffon26@kfk4ever.com http://www.kfk4ever.com --bajzpZikUji1w+G9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCLeJGMGnpIbeahxwRAm+YAJwOit5pUind58iB1SozReMDpPX8FgCeILxk UgisSIFcX4RuKChfa7/ssRc= =IBkL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bajzpZikUji1w+G9-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list