From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE groups) and negatives
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:41:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050308224106.46d80d72@snowdrop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050308173503.GD23754@kfk4ever.com>
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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:35:03 +0100 Maurice van der Pot
<griffon26@gentoo.org> wrote:
| 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?
No, but klieber probably can, since he was the main proponent of not
disallowing negatives.
Having said that, "I can't think of one" is by no means equal to "there
are none". I can't think of any reason why anyone would ever possibly
want to use XML for anything, for example, but I'm sure *someone*
somewhere out there has a legit use for it.
--
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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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
2005-03-08 22:41 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
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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