On Fri 21Jan22 14:40, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:
On 1/22/21 2:33 PM, Roland Puntaier via aur-general wrote:
Could someone comment on
https://github.com/kewlfft/ansible-aur/pull/50
The issue was that ansible-aur produced an error on an empty package list. Now the question is whether ansible-aur should allow empty package lists.
pacman doesn't allow empty lists either.
Yay does allow empty argument list. Empty is like 0: mathematics allows 0. A uses B. A puts arguments in a variable. If B does not allow empty, - A needs to check on every use of B whether arguments are empty. If B allow empty, - A does not need to check. It just makes the life of A easier, or n*A easier, if more use B. Generally if-then-else tend to propagate and inflate the code. The code base becomes larger and slower. I made a pull request to pacman on github to make the error a warning instead.
-- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User