* [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation?
@ 2013-05-01 1:52 99% ` Ryan Hill
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From: Ryan Hill @ 2013-05-01 1:52 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:12:13 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:30:03 +0000 (UTC)
> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> > There's value in someone being just contrarian enough to purposefully
> > look for the strangest or most illogical read of a spec and
> > (initially) implement it that way, in ordered to root out and get the
> > bugs in the spec fixed. That said...
>
> I highly doubt the person implementing the code for Paludis was doing
> it in a contrarian way. As far as I can see, he simply implemented what
> the spec says.
Then the person implementing the code for Paludis is either a monkey or a
robot*. Anyone capable of reasoning could puzzle out the implications of not
allowing user-given options to override the defaults. Obviously you can write
code that follows a spec but is still broken or useless.
*or both (?!)
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2013-04-29 5:55 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Shall econf append its arguments to end of ./configure invocation? Michał Górny
2013-04-29 18:36 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-04-29 18:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-04-29 20:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-04-29 20:59 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-04-29 22:22 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-04-29 22:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-04-29 23:12 ` Rich Freeman
2013-04-30 5:30 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-04-30 11:12 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-05-01 1:52 99% ` Ryan Hill
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