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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Stroppy perl-cleaner
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On Saturday 14 February 2015 11:53:23 Neil Bothwick wrote:

> Your use of -- to supply extra arguments to emerge. It means you may
> be using unsupported options so if it breaks, the pieces are all
> yours.

Yes, I can read the words, Neil  ;-)  I just want to know whether it's 
safe to ignore the warning even when issued with such vigour. As I said, 
I can't see anything dangerous in the arguments I pass in the alias.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.