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On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:34:58 -0500
"Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Namely if I build abc with options 123 and 345 and
> def with 345 and 678 then 345 will be cached for def since we already
> set it for abc.

How do you know the user wants 345 set on both ports?

It might be a useful stable feature on "abc", but causes lock-ups on
"def"