On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:43:56 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > At the risk of reopening a large can of worms, can somebody explain | > to me why the license groups idea won't run into the same conceptual | > issues that derailed GLEP 29 (USE groups)? Am I missing something | > obvious? | | Maybe my memory is wrong, but wasn't the problem only that people | couldn't agree on one set of semantics for negations and being afraid | of confusing users?
No. The big problem with use groups was that they were designed to solve one particular problem: bulk enabling / disabling of use flags, but certain people also wanted to use them for use flag categorisation, for which the proposal sucked. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ as-needed is broken : http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=13
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