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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