From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE dependencies
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 16:08:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090104160845.40a17677@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b4c83ad0901040804v2e87a7bdn2066f8a7e928c800@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 21:34:18 +0530
"Nirbheek Chauhan" <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com> wrote:
> How about this:
>
> New syntax Expanded syntax
> Extension of
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> pkg[foo?bar] foo? ( cat/pkg[bar] ) !foo? ( cat/pkg )
> cat/pkg[foo?]
> pkg[!foo?bar] foo? ( cat/pkg ) !foo? ( cat/pkg[bar] )
> cat/pkg[foo?]
> pkg[foo=bar] foo? ( cat/pkg[bar] ) !foo? ( cat/pkg[-bar] )
> cat/pkg[foo=]
> pkg[!foo=bar] foo? ( cat/pkg[-bar] ) !foo? ( cat/pkg[bar] )
> cat/pkg[!foo=]
>
> IMO, this is simple enough to understand, and use :)
It's utterly useless. Unlike the existing shortcut forms, what you're
after isn't widely enough used to warrant its own shortcut. Use the
expanded form and have done with it.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-04 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-04 13:54 [gentoo-dev] USE dependencies Christian Faulhammer
2009-01-04 15:34 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-01-04 15:46 ` Tomáš Chvátal
2009-01-04 15:56 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-01-04 16:04 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-01-04 16:08 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2009-01-04 16:48 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-01-04 16:58 ` David Leverton
2009-01-05 8:31 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-01-05 8:40 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-01-04 16:59 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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