>>>>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Tiziano Müller wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 25.03.2009, 23:23 +0000 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh:
>> > > 9) EAPI 3 bans || ( use? ( ... ) )
>> > 
>> > What is the suggested replacement? If there's a decent one, sure.
>> 
>> The replacement is to write the deps out correctly. Every single
>> use of || ( use? ( ... ) ) in the tree is wrong.

That its use in the tree is often wrong is a non-argument. After all,
it's not the package manager's business to educate people.

We shouldn't make the syntax of these expressions non-orthogonal
without real need.

> I created bug #262297 for that (with more text, featuring a citation
> from a famous non-gentoo-dev ;-).

Ulrich