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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2017-09-10
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:57:41
Message-Id: 22950.53854.835965.292539@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2017-09-10 by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Wed, 30 Aug 2017, Michał Górny wrote:
2
3 > I see no reason to make Portage less strict than it is now. There
4 > is no valid use case for this, and the PMS behavior is just plain
5 > stupid. Reverting the change will not bring any clear gain, and will
6 > only surprise people who actually hit the case.
7
8 Portage would not be compliant with the new wording either, though:
9
10 RDEPEND="|| (
11 foo? ( cat/foo )
12 bar? ( cat/bar )
13 )"
14
15 with USE="-foo -bar" evaluates to true in Portage, while under the
16 new PMS wording the empty group should evaluate to false.
17
18 Ulrich