>>>>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Tiziano Müller wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 25.03.2009, 23:23 +0000 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: >> > > 9) EAPI 3 bans || ( use? ( ... ) ) >> > >> > What is the suggested replacement? If there's a decent one, sure. >> >> The replacement is to write the deps out correctly. Every single >> use of || ( use? ( ... ) ) in the tree is wrong.
That its use in the tree is often wrong is a non-argument. After all, it's not the package manager's business to educate people. We shouldn't make the syntax of these expressions non-orthogonal without real need. > I created bug #262297 for that (with more text, featuring a citation > from a famous non-gentoo-dev ;-). Ulrich
