Whims and insights

So, any of my readers who are auto enthusiasts probably remember the Dodge Challenger.  You're probably also aware that Dodge is muttering and mumbling not-quite-promises about building a new Challenger.

If built, the new Challenger will be built on the LY platform, a shortened, 116-inch-wheelbase variant of the 120-inch-wheelbase LX platform on which the current Charger is built.  Word is that, again if built, it would most likely hit dealerships in 2008 as a 2009 model (by which time it's even possible I might be able to afford one).  They say it'll look something very like this.

(Yes, it'll have a Hemi.)

(Please stop drooling now.)

And that spurred another thought today, that just sort of came out of nowhere.  It would be necessary, should I obtain such a car, to get personalized plates on it.  And I have a very specific plate in mind.

It would look something very like this....

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Update:  Thanks to yndy for pointing me at the Acme License Plate Generator, which does a much faster and better job than my original relatively-crude Gimp effort.

Attention robbat2 or other Gentoo wizards

Once I get my Gentoo install working happily, I suppose I'm going to need to make ebuilds for several packages I use that don't now have any.  These include my favorite programming editor, Xcoral, and my multithreaded Perl ICB client, ICBM.

Now, there's a problem with this.  It's easy to make one package dependent on another package.  However, ICBM will not work unless Perl is built with ithreads support, and, for reasons that utterly and completely baffle and mystify me, to the best of my knowledge no OS or Linux distribution ships Perl by default with ithreads enabled.

So the question this raises is, is there any way to specify in an ebuild, "This package ICBM requires package dev-lang/perl, and requires that dev-lang/perl be built with USE=ithreads"?