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On 02/22/2015 03:26 AM, lee wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On a side note, someone should inform the portage devs that higher
>> priorities should equal lower numbers. Don't do it the opposite way to
>> the rest of the world, please :-P
> 
> Why should "low" mean "high"?  The rest of the world usually considers
> "high" as high and "low" as low.
> 
> 

That's not how the real world deals with priority lists. If I have
something urgent and I tell someone it's priority 10 they'll tell me to
I'll have to deal with it faster than that.

1=First thing to do
2=Second thing to do
etc...

Dan