On 14:24 Sun 24 Oct , William Hubbs wrote: > Hi all, > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:45:01PM +0300, Eray Aslan wrote: > > On 21.10.2010 10:30, Peter Volkov wrote: > > > Nothing there applies here, since this USE flag has nothing to do with > > > archs/profiles... > > > > which will force some users to use double negative (-nocdemud, i.e. no > > no cdemud) which is rather convulated and should be avoided imho. While > > at it, we should try to make the wording on the devmanual clearer, that > > it only applies to arches/profiles > > I realize I'm a little lateon this thread, so this is more just for the > record I guess. > > I don't like no* use flags either, for the same reason that was given > above. -no* is a double negative and it should be avoided.
Agreed. The argument that it's removing a feature is an implementation detail that users don't and shouldn't have to care about at all. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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