Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 08:58:54AM +0200, Micha?? G??rny wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 06:52:11 -0700
> Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Keeping it short and quick, a basic glep has been written for what I'm 
> > proposing for DEPENDENCIES enhancement.
> > 
> > The live version of the doc is available at 
> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~ferringb/unified-dependencies/extensible_dependencies.html 
> 
> One more question -- are we going to keep 'foo,bar?' syntax as
> a special case applying only to dependency atoms or are we going to
> extend it to USE flags?

It's fairly dep specific; that's effectivelly foo|bar when you think 
about it; it multiplies out to dep:foo? ( that block ) dep:bar? ( that 
block ) in a dumb PM (smarter one just leaves the tree collapsed and 
filters as it goes).

Phrased another way, I'm not sure we really need shorthand for the 
following:

x? ( blah )
y? ( blah )
z? ( blah )

into
x,y,z? ( blah )

It's a rare case; I could only foresee that potentially being of use 
for arch flags; ie, amd64,x86? ( blah ); which I'd write as 
"arch:amd64,x86? ( blah )" personally since I don't like the notion of 
introducing ',' into raw, non use group flags.

That said, I don't hugely care; people think it's useful, then have at 
it.
~harring