From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GtjV5-0001CM-1Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:39:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBBBcH2i026381; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:38:17 GMT Received: from ppsw-2.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-2.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.132]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBBBaZuK018600 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:36:35 GMT X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from cpc4-cmbg1-0-0-cust9.cmbg.cable.ntl.com ([82.21.108.10]:57960 helo=blashyrk) by ppsw-2.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.152]:465) with esmtpsa (LOGIN:spb42) (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1GtjRv-0001g2-7T (Exim 4.63) for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org (return-path ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:35:59 +0000 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:35:34 +0000 From: Stephen Bennett To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies on system packages Message-ID: <20061211113534.4d15a366@blashyrk> In-Reply-To: References: <20061210011117.36672693@blashyrk> <20061210013347.02fc22cd@blashyrk> <200612100322.52349.peper@gentoo.org> <20061210025009.3e17529b@blashyrk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-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@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "S.P. Bennett" X-Archives-Salt: 4911540f-52f5-4f2d-a2b8-f001e42bcbe2 X-Archives-Hash: 42b63ebab3c8058ea57107fa34ee2cdd On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:03:18 +0000 Steve Long wrote: > Could you spell out that exception clause, please? It doesn't translate well into words, but we'll go with something like "Unless you know exactly why the rule is there, understand fully the imp -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list