On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:04:09 +0100
Rodolphe Rocca <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It's an ebuild bug. || ( a b ) means "prefer a, but b is fine too".
> 
> What would be the correct syntax then ?
> 
> I tried :
> 
> opengl? ( virtual/opengl ||
> (<x11-libs/libX11-1.3.99.901[xcb] ||>=x11-libs/libX11-1.3.99.901 ) )
> 
> 
> But it looks like a real syntax error, not a sematic mistake.

It's || ( a b ) not ( a || b ) . The issue is that the 'best' thing is
expected to be leftmost. Thus, ebuilds should always do || ( >cat/a-1
<cat/a-1 ) and the like, never the other way around.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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