From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-78279-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1JkFgl-0002nG-J5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:36:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C564E04FD; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:36:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mx1.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4786E04FD for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:36:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 915CBDEC2A for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:37:36 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kMrhkEYzgTJe for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:31:41 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.ethnet (78-32-181-186.no-dns-yet.enta.net [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1515DEC43 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:37:36 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:36:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200804091740.41507.uwix@iway.na> <200804101359.17472.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> <200804101408.14466.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200804101408.14466.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804111036.44235.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 2ec6601b-7c98-4bed-a08f-c2d16c5b9cd1 X-Archives-Hash: 0b9a1675d78f14c258d0c76f8f756331 On Thursday 10 April 2008 13:08:14 Alan McKinnon wrote: > "blocks" is 6 letters. A semantically correct phrase is longer and takes > up heaps of line length. The emerge dev apparently favours brevity and > complete data over absolute descriptive correctness. We're not dealing here with fine details of semantics; what emerge tells us is usually correct in my experience, but in this case it's actually saying the opposite of what it means. More thought is needed. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list