From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 76D5613832E for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 19:18:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E425E0C03; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 19:18:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mo4-p05-ob.smtp.rzone.de (mo4-p05-ob.smtp.rzone.de [81.169.146.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8477CE0BF5 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 19:18:25 +0000 (UTC) X-RZG-AUTH: :I3kQYkG6f/ML/Lb0bAYFCBt+SpICkd7E+UrA1ycmip9RDA+sU5X2LKttEjWjhdhsCcLc X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo05 Received: from porto.localnet ([193.170.4.74]) by smtp.strato.de (RZmta 38.13 AUTH) with ESMTPSA id R091cas7FJIN0FW (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (curve secp521r1 with 521 ECDH bits, eq. 15360 bits RSA)) (Client did not present a certificate) for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2016 21:18:23 +0200 (CEST) From: "Andreas K. =?iso-8859-1?q?H=FCttel?=" Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Working Group established to evaluate the stable tree Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 21:18:22 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/4.1.15-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.14.22; x86_64; ; ) References: <6046d13b-1a54-aa5e-ab16-df448b0f8c59@gentoo.org> <411ea6a5-3463-5d36-b891-4ed65f7717b0@gentoo.org> <20160814225731.15f3e273@snowflex> In-Reply-To: <20160814225731.15f3e273@snowflex> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201608152118.22935.dilfridge@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 91a16f00-31b5-415e-b91e-00444ba42928 X-Archives-Hash: 4a998b5757f0a83fcb9ddeccfbb9e3cd Am Sonntag, 14. August 2016, 23:57:31 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: >=20 > I'm not sure what a group is. Is it anything like a herd? It's a set with a binary operator, with following fulfilled: * closed with respect to the operation * the operation is associative=20 * there is a neutral element for the operation * and there's an inverse for each element The neutral element can be shown to be unique.=20 Oh, offtopic? Sorry.... =2D-=20 Andreas K. H=FCttel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfridge@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/