On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:24:15 +0100 Maurice van der Pot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > I'm in favour of 2) personally, but others disagree. I'd like a | > proper discussion on this before trying to get the GLEP through. | | What I am still missing is a good argument _FOR_ negatives. We are | talking about negatives within groups, right? I agree with you that if | we choose 2, sooner or later it's going to get screwed up. We must | have a better reason for allowing them than just the off chance that | negatives might be useful in a way we cannot forsee yet. Reasons we want to allow negatives: * They are useful in certain situations. * They could reasonably be expected to work -- negatives work in other places. * Not supporting negatives simply because they cause complications is basically admitting that we suck. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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