On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 03:14:14 -0700
Greg Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> WTF is up with it?  Why does it love the first Atom so much more than
> the others?

Historically, because it was defined that way. Now there are so many
special cases, heuristics and exceptions that there's no way of telling
what it will do...

> It could be such a useful feature, but, in practice, it just never
> seems to do what I want it to.  Is it a bug?

The problem is that developers started wanting || to do "what they want
it to do" rather than "what it is defined to do", and that Portage
tried to give them that. Unfortunately, getting software to do "what you
expect" sometimes looks OK in the short term.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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