From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, pms-bugs@gentoo.org, dev-portage@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: The meaning of || ( a:= b:= ) dependencies
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 08:06:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21471.8946.528694.84451@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140804004450.5aa146ec@pomiot.lan>
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>>>>> On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Michał Górny wrote:
> In particular, I was thinking we could reuse this syntax:
> || ( A:= B:= )
> to express any-of dependencies that do not support runtime switching
> of providers -- since that is pretty much what := does to slots.
> This would save us from creating a new syntax like '||= ()' [1].
Please don't, because it makes things pretty much unreadable. If you
want an operator like || ( ) but without runtime switching, then
define one (e.g., <<= or ||= as suggested in [1]), but don't try
to inherit properties from its children.
An EAPI bump will be required in any case.
Ulrich
> [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489458
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-03 22:44 [gentoo-dev] The meaning of || ( a:= b:= ) dependencies Michał Górny
2014-08-04 0:41 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-08-04 7:19 ` Michał Górny
2014-08-04 6:06 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2014-08-04 7:26 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2014-08-04 7:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
[not found] ` <7cbf12bc6e5646adb74392b7b7e192a1@mail10.futurewins.com>
2014-08-04 9:55 ` Rich Freeman
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