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On 08/29/2017 10:13 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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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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This might be a worthwhile change, but what measures needs to be taken |
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for maintainers etc when something is being masked as a result of this? |
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it seems it can result in a situation that the group becomes empty in |
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some remote part of the tree and causing a breakage, so any mask |
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potentially requires a full repoman run before committing? |
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What are the downsides to the current logic? does it increase complexity |
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much in algorithms? |
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What are reasons for introducing such changes retroactively instead of |
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specifying it in next EAPI version? |
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