Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for March 26
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:01:00
Message-Id: 8b4c83ad0903260700r2bdc5289hea579ab2936272df@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council Reminder for March 26 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
2 <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > The behaviour of || ( use? ( ... ) ) is a fluke of an early
4 > implementation of Portage that someone picked up on and documented (with
5 > incorrect examples). It's *already* special, weird behaviour, and it's
6 > special, weird behaviour that can't be used correctly.
7 >
8
9 I would like to say that I agree. It's special, weird, non-obvious,
10 and easily misunderstood behaviour. Let's chuck it.
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14 ~Nirbheek Chauhan