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From: David Leverton <levertond@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE dependencies
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 16:58:56 +0000
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On Sunday 04 January 2009 16:48:38 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> On the contrary, the reverse of what you say is true. A simple grep of
> the tree showed that:

In how many of those ebuilds would the long form be
    use1? ( cat/pkg[use2] )
rather than
    use1? ( cat/pkg[use2] ) !use1? ( cat/pkg )
?  Obviously I didn't look through all the hits, but the former seems quite 
common, and any possible shortcut would only save a few characters.