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On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:13:31 +0200 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Tue, 29 Aug 2017, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > the Gentoo Council will meet again on 2017-09-10 at 18:00 utc. |
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> > Please reply to this message with any items you would like us to |
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> > discuss or vote on. |
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> I request the Council to approve a PMS change, namely to ban empty |
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> dependency groups like "|| ( )" or "foo? ( )". |
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> Currently, any parenthesised groups in package dependency |
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> specifications [1] are permitted to contain zero items, and such empty |
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> groups evaluate to true. For logical disjuctions like "|| ( )" this |
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> deviates from the usual convention that empty operations should |
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> evaluate to false. |
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Does your PMS patch takes into account constructs like: |
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'|| ( foo? ( bar ) baz? ( bar ) )' ? With foo and baz masked or |
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disabled, this would end up empty and you would still need to define |
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how to treat empty ||. |
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Alexis. |
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