On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:19:18PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:04:21 +0100 Harald van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> | On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:55:44AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> | > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:41:27 +0100 Harald van Dijk
> | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | > | I don't think anyone was planning on encouraging people to mess
> | > | with ACCEPT_RESTRICT if it gets implemented.
> | > 
> | > Implementing it *is* encouraging people to mess with it.
> | 
> | Just like people are encouraged to use FEATURES="noauto noclean"?
> | Implementing it is not encouraging people to mess with it.
> 
> FEATURES has legitimate values. The feature as a whole is useful, even
> if some of the options have very restricted target audiences.

So if ACCEPT_* were implemented in a way that lets you write
ACCEPT="keyword:~x86 -license:QPL-1.0 restrict:sandbox"
you'd have no problem? After all, ACCEPT as a whole is useful, right?

You can't group all features together in your logic, just because they
share a variable. Please reconsider the point I tried to make.

> | As for the legitimate use, I won't try to convince you that there are
> | legitimate uses, but rather, even if it is silly, what does it matter
> | to you?
> 
> It matters in that there's even more time being spent going off on
> completely the wrong track that would be of more use elsewhere.

ACCEPT_RESTRICT is trivial to implement and to maintain, even moreso if
you combine the code for it with that for ACCEPT_LICENSE. More time has
been spent on this thread than would have to be on the code...
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