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From: Josh Tolbert <hemi@puresimplicity.net>
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On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:46:43AM +0300, Sideris Michael wrote:
> Oh, come on now. Each Option has a description next to it. Let's be reasonable.

Often times a very terse description that occasionally requires digging
through the Makefile to actually see what's going on.

Josh
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