Florian Festi wrote: > Also we still need to settle to a final syntax for the operators [1]. > Unfortunately there is no consensus among the other packaging formats > what to use. Right now rpm accepts 3 different styles: > * AND OR IF ELSE > * & | ? : > * && || ? : > But the final release will only support on of them. As soon as the > alpha stops eating babies that's a discussion we need to have. I'm sure the C-like operators will be popular among people who are accustomed to C and its descendants, but please keep in mind that packagers aren't necessarily C programmers. Especially the conditional operator from C – the question mark and colon – is quite unintuitive. People who don't already know the C syntax are unlikely to understand it without some teaching. Björn Persson
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