On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:04:01 +0300
Markos Chandras <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/09/2011 11:01 πμ, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is there a real reason to have <herd>no-herd</herd>? As I see it,
> > it's just an ugly hack which all programs have to learn and hack
> > for no benefit.
> > 
> What is the problem with that? Why is it an ugly hack?

Because it's explicitly saying 'none'. It's like requiring programs to
pass "NONE" rather than NULL/None/undef.

Because every program which is supposed to list herds, needs to grab
the list and strip 'no-herd' from it.

And what if a package has '<herd>foo</herd><herd>no-herd</herd>'?

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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