From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E304138A1A for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 15:20:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ADD36E08EF; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 15:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f176.google.com (mail-wi0-f176.google.com [209.85.212.176]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 84E3DE0849 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 15:20:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f176.google.com with SMTP id h11so17855624wiw.3 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:20:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oSt8vyP90+Xx8yUtDEkPzEAZtD7/yMlF+k9Yq5MEHKY=; b=w5JhxOgUq+4KyzmePnPjd6vZJPA+nrRE3KrmqVafmEaVfFSN/xbo0nQtuc0nJ8Ef/S U945PFz499a4tNfj3GQADaM3q/QUkJyFMgxyiviGHjdSWvX9SRR0yneCDDM9bXfB7cwt PRSi5wYIBTCmnXRUrIqtr6EkSZt9+QWulbOL8L90z+5Advk8qStMtw5J1h6czCV3yB7I 5fP05qXlKZisMiz/1vn8OKqCSn2W3moEOcsqdnu+CGegsy4UdWD9OtBl3VAD0NyPzv2b MbDSypA79130Zx9HeHszYPMVbDDcEl7YX+S3FZKTpBUiQbm55FqWxYua84W5/CzWiPVV 5aEQ== X-Received: by 10.194.236.200 with SMTP id uw8mr24650292wjc.10.1423927235362; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:20:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-94-113.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.94.113]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id l6sm14588844wjx.33.2015.02.14.07.20.33 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:20:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54DF677F.50308@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 17:19:27 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Stroppy perl-cleaner References: <2325806.Dan2CkZG8y@wstn> <971745c8-0805-43cf-a74e-1c7f6fc334c7@email.android.com> <43152130.7zsFNAXs7S@wstn> In-Reply-To: <43152130.7zsFNAXs7S@wstn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 347d3f19-6cec-408c-b775-54f7ad4a0943 X-Archives-Hash: 16dc16b7ae4256c44be04e1825c82f59 On 14/02/2015 16:11, Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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. > Those should be safe, none of your selected options change the final output. Personally, I think the warning is going a tad overboard, but hey to each dev his own -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com