On 07/29/2015 11:08 AM, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote: > From C-style operators I would prefer single-character ones for two reasons: > > 1) Two-character operators may suggest short-circuit evaluation - > "Requires: foo || bar" can be misunderstood as "require foo, or bar if > and only if foo is not available", which is not how that works. There is > no such problem with single-character operators. In other words, > "|" and "&" operators are commutative, but "||" and "&&" are not. > > 2) Debian uses single-character operators. Cross-distro consistency and > less confusion for people working on both Fedora and Debian is a plus. 1) and 2) contradict each other. In practice, “|“ in dependencies is not commutative due to virtual packages and buildd installation choices. -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
