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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Cc: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>, Gentoo Council <council@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for agenda items, council meeting 8/October/2017 18:00 UTC
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:13:09
Message-Id: 1507054381.18724.1.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for agenda items, council meeting 8/October/2017 18:00 UTC by Kristian Fiskerstrand
1 W dniu wto, 03.10.2017 o godzinie 13∶10 +0200, użytkownik Kristian
2 Fiskerstrand napisał:
3 > On 10/03/2017 01:05 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
4 > > Why would it need to handle explicit empty groups? If all
5 > > use-conditionals inside a group evaluate to false, then it must be
6 > > able to compute it. That doesn't prevent us from having strict syntax
7 > > requirements.
8 >
9 > So the code paths for parsing of the ebuild anyways differs from
10 > handling the implicit case, i.e it is an actual reduction in code
11 > complexity to ban this case explicitly in PMS?
12 >
13 > What does other package managers building on PMS do?
14
15 PkgCore treats empty groups as an error.
16
17 Paludis seems to follow the spec to the letter, and this implies a lot
18 of extra code to handle the unexpected special cases.
19
20 --
21 Best regards,
22 Michał Górny