Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:11:26 -0400:
> I responded to this sentence: >>>Interested in >>>figuring out what use flags were turned off? Check out >>>/usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults and other use.defaults files >>>that correspond to your profile. > > I read that to mean "compare the base use.default with the other > use.defaults file and note the differences." It could also read "look at > the base use.default as well as the other use.default files." It was a > case of semantics and an ambiguously worded sentence, not my inability to > comprehend use.defaults. <light dawns> Ooohhh, gotcha now!! You are right, that /is/ a bit ambiguous. Obviously, neither I nor the author caught that. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
