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 j28Mfj0i030530 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:41:46 GMT Received: from [62.254.189.226] (helo=snowdrop) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.42) id 1D8nOb-0006Sa-3A for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:41:45 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop) by snowdrop with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8nO1-0003Jd-Vt for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:41:10 +0000 Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 22:41:06 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 29 (USE groups) and negatives Message-ID: <20050308224106.46d80d72@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <20050308173503.GD23754@kfk4ever.com> References: <20050306162849.247c8c8f@snowdrop> <20050307192415.GA23754@kfk4ever.com> <20050308152117.543b7e36@snowdrop> <20050308173503.GD23754@kfk4ever.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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; boundary=Signature_Tue__8_Mar_2005_22_41_06_+0000__U4dufyW0dfaFEk4; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Archives-Salt: 8918980c-d2fe-4d0f-ba53-ce46144afb3d X-Archives-Hash: 00a5abf3f51370b8501fbfab4e14dd74 --Signature_Tue__8_Mar_2005_22_41_06_+0000__U4dufyW0dfaFEk4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:35:03 +0100 Maurice van der Pot 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 | > wrote: | >=20 | > Reasons we want to allow negatives: | > * They are useful in certain situations. |=20 | 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Tue__8_Mar_2005_22_41_06_+0000__U4dufyW0dfaFEk4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCLioE96zL6DUtXhERArSNAKCEK8DRu7y8R3UP84V20wvnCCtCcgCdHszA /4U3HoTP9X6g9GTM/AyYJEU= =peU+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Tue__8_Mar_2005_22_41_06_+0000__U4dufyW0dfaFEk4-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list