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* [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-systemd-only deprecation
  @ 2013-07-31 18:31 99%                     ` Grant Edwards
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From: Grant Edwards @ 2013-07-31 18:31 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 2013-07-31, Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:09:03PM -0500, Canek Pel?ez Vald?s wrote:
>>>
>>> Hmmmn, it's a bit freaking weird - if I'm understanding correctly
>>> some of the statements made here about systemd - that there will be
>>> files installed to /etc/init.d/ that don't actually do anything.
>> 
>> If you use systemd, all the files installed in /etc/init.d (except
>> functions.sh) don't actually do nothing. If you use OpenRC, all the
>> files installed in /urs/lib/systemd/system don't actually do nothing.
>> 
>> Whichever you use (OpenRC or systemd), you will have files in both
>> locations (actually, a bunch of them), and therefore one of those
>> locations will have files that don't actually do nothing.
>> 
>> Unless you use INSTALL_MASK, which is of course what this is all about.

> In English "don't actually do nothing" means "do something"; i.e. "don't
> actually do anything" != "don't actually do nothing".

In standard, formal English, that's correct.

However, in some English dialects, a double-negatve does not equate to
a positive.  A double negative is simply a stronger negative.  For
example, "don't do nothing" is a stronger, more emphatic version of
"don't do anything".  Languages like that have "negative concord". 
Old and Middle English were that way, and some modern dialects of
English are that way.

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2013-07-30 22:40     [gentoo-user] gentoo-systemd-only deprecation Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-07-31 11:34     ` Tanstaafl
2013-07-31 12:22       ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-31 12:30         ` Tanstaafl
2013-07-31 15:20           ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-07-31 15:26             ` Tanstaafl
2013-07-31 15:36               ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-07-31 17:23                 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-31 17:56                   ` Stroller
2013-07-31 18:09                     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-07-31 18:21                       ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-31 18:31 99%                     ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards

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