On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 19:58:13 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 00:49:57 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 19:39:33 -0400 > > "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote: > > > The two ways are not the same, and there is a reason sets exist in > > > the first place. People seem to be over looking that fact. I did > > > not add sets. They are not new. I am simply trying to expand > > > their use. > > > > Sets exist because people keep saying "let's have sets!" without > > agreeing on what sets actually are or how they are to be used. > > Do they need to agree? Isn't Gentoo about choice? Maybe your use of > sets is different from mine. Is that not acceptable to have choice?
Well yes, they do need to agree, because otherwise when two different developers put sets in a profile expecting different effects, then at least two developers are going to end up confused, disappointed, and quite probably breaking user systems. -- Ciaran McCreesh
