On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:22:42 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | So the best fix for this is not just retaining two ways to say the | same thing but actually expanding it? (!foo vs nofoo). That feels | really wrong.
The Vim / ncurses example I posted earlier is perhaps a more practical illustration of the same point. The problem is, any system that doesn't allow forcing as well as masking use flags leads to ugly cases needing either !arch? or weirdly named (e.g. noncurses) USE flags. Without use forcing, we have to have a mixture of foo and nofoo flags including cases where there are both foo and nofoo for the same value of foo. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
