Re: New package dependency field format

[Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 06:13:08PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > > > ! is probably needed.
> > > > 
> > > > What for, exactly? I can think of
> > > > 
> > > > Depends: foo (!= 1.34-2)
> > > > 
> > > > but that sounds more like eye candy than really necessary...
> > > 
> > > Depends: foo | ! bar
> > > 
> > > That can be read as "If bar is installed, then foo must also be
> > > installed".
> > 
> > That still sounds redundant, and can be currently expressed with
> > 
> > Depends: foo, foo | bar
> 
> No, that requires either foo or bar be installed.

Which is what "If bar is installed, then foo must also be installed" meant
if you apply it only to the part after the pipe, as the present parser
does... I didn't realize that you meant the whole expression means that.

I guess it shows something about my vgrep, but also about the readability
of such a thing.

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