Patrick Lauer posted on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:36:47 +0200 as excerpted: >> Now I see this proposal for making it a USE flag, which may or may not >> be more appropriate, I don't know. I do know I'd love to see someone >> explain the differences. > It's a bit more selective. RESTRICT is a global "no, this is broken", > the new useflag (or more fine-grained restrict?) says "there are tests, > but they might make things explode" so that those that do want the tests > can easily use them without making users sad puppied. And if there's > anything we don't want it is more sad puppies.
Thanks. That makes things /much/ clearer! =:^) -- 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
