On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:46:42AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > So your actual problem is that you relied on an arbitrary behaviour of > portage from the days when the standard was "whatever portage does > today" and you are unhappy because for you that is now broken. > > But no-one ever promised you that behaviour in a stable API.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html#id2878339 > Rule of Least Surprise: In interface design, always do the least > surprising thing. > > (This is also widely known as the Principle of Least Astonishment.) -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
