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Re: Updated maint-guide contents, question on style



Osamu Aoki wrote:
> ...
>>   LIBS = -lfoo -lquux
> 
> Why quux?  Is this like one of foo bar baz ...

Yes, one of the rarer metasyntactic variables.  I don't know if it
matters how library dependencies are ordered, so I picked quux on the
grounds that (unlike bar/baz) it would still be after foo if I was
sorting them alphabetically...
-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package


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