From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R11LH-00055N-Cb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:29:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AC5521C381; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:29:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E398621C306 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:21:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzs8 with SMTP id zs8so7748903bkb.40 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:21:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qvvMR59YFPUmNjzbr6ZpyKFfxZaze7lVxGgau6GpiVo=; b=GImPD9FGif0w+puwWhs9XNPo+O3lO8L8J0ABF/opBBwieM0vWOe8lz1Q5GY0rRTHlP erbnSSpjwoEPcqhPz+2OUBFA7LXkFpEaKW28e2G7X1CmCEFbOjqbMBovfX4IVlweyCX6 OfIOPf/viAF0IeMJmKwbFVZuLgwe7AXdAlqKU= 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 Received: by 10.204.4.138 with SMTP id 10mr3151086bkr.374.1315336901038; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.134.153 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:21:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110906185725.GG9867@acm.acm> References: <87ehzuiu1y.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <4E65405E.8020809@wonkology.org> <4E664740.80406@gmail.com> <20110906164938.GC9867@acm.acm> <20110906175554.GE9867@acm.acm> <20110906185725.GG9867@acm.acm> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:21:40 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a25676750af84f7f0dcac5b5a3f64fb1 On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Canek. > On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 02:22:44PM -0400, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s w= rote: > The support for lpr exists. =C2=A0It's being removed, for some reason. = =C2=A0Given > that printing works by constructing a postscript equivalent of the thing > being printed, just how difficult can it be to squirt this postscript > down lpr rather than the cups equivalent? =C2=A0How long does it take to = write > a C++ `if' statement? You don't actually code in large projects, do you? That single 'if' statement is going to multiply your needed testing coverage area by a very large amount. Even automated tests can be enough of a pain that PHP just had a massive security problem by being sloppy and not _running_ them prior to a point release. --=20 :wq