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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@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 11:10:47
Message-Id: 1d108276-cf83-3aa4-12b0-f3eb38ea6ff5@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 Ulrich Mueller
1 On 10/03/2017 01:05 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > Why would it need to handle explicit empty groups? If all
3 > use-conditionals inside a group evaluate to false, then it must be
4 > able to compute it. That doesn't prevent us from having strict syntax
5 > requirements.
6
7 So the code paths for parsing of the ebuild anyways differs from
8 handling the implicit case, i.e it is an actual reduction in code
9 complexity to ban this case explicitly in PMS?
10
11 What does other package managers building on PMS do?
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