On 05/10/2023 06.12, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 21:43 +0300, Arthur Zamarin wrote:
>> Specification
>> =============
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Must conform to PMS sections 4.4 [#PMS-4.4]_ and 5.2.8 [#PMS-5.2.8]_. This GLEP
>> further limits the syntax to one item per line, without any leading or
>> proceeding whitespaces, no comments inside the packages list, and no blank
>> lines between items in the list.
> 
> That kinda sucks.  For very long masks, it is useful to be able to split
> the entry into subgroups.  I suppose it's technically still doable via
> splitting the entry but that sounds a bit backwards.
> 

Good point. I'll update the draft to allow single blank lines between
package lists, but I'll still add recommendation to consider splitting
into multiple separate masks.

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Arthur Zamarin
arthurzam@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer (Python, pkgcore stack, Arch Teams, GURU)