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 1Gvq9a-0006h5-24 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:09:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBH78wi3010135; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:08:58 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBH76No6021710 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:06:24 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2034D8D305 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:27:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18878-07 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:27:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from snowdrop (82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.57.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0CFE8D304 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:27:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:06:11 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dependencies on system packages Message-ID: <20061217070611.7dc254cc@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <45845550.9050705@gentoo.org> References: <20061210011117.36672693@blashyrk> <20061210013347.02fc22cd@blashyrk> <200612100322.52349.peper@gentoo.org> <20061210025009.3e17529b@blashyrk> <20061211113534.4d15a366@blashyrk> <20061211114529.22081fec@blashyrk> <20061216124630.102c8602@tycho.dirtyepic.ca> <20061216201309.02a2e13d@snowdrop> <45845550.9050705@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; 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@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_RXc2tWuIE4jX5wfRPnyXXPj; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: feb933c5-ee67-414e-8bdb-b15007ad5452 X-Archives-Hash: 8ca11734765b15c7c751eb5c6703c499 --Sig_RXc2tWuIE4jX5wfRPnyXXPj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:21:36 -0500 Doug Goldstein wrote: | > It's quite simple. You don't do it unless you are fully aware of the | > consequences. If you have to ask, you aren't fully aware of the | > consequences so you mustn't do it. | >=20 |=20 | Which clearly doesn't answer Ryan's question... but hey... that's a | Ciaran answer... No, it answers it perfectly, and far better than the other answers in this thread that give an incomplete and inaccurate perspective that will encourage people to do the wrong thing. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis is faster : http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=3D61 --Sig_RXc2tWuIE4jX5wfRPnyXXPj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFhOxn96zL6DUtXhERAvfsAKCT/VC9z6AngCuK6533RfbllbzMsQCgqxh9 /YPKsIl0vaztbYmepf0unco= =EPct -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_RXc2tWuIE4jX5wfRPnyXXPj-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list