On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 01:32:49PM +0200, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > I beg to differ. When a tag in RPM can have multiple items (e.g.
> > Provides, (Build)Requires), this …:
> > 
> > Tag: item1 item2 item3
> > 
> > … is consistently equivalent to this:
> > 
> > Tag: item1
> > Tag: item2
> > Tag: item3
> > 
> > To have ExclusiveArch behave differently would be surprising – nobody
> > (😉) would read this and expect the effective list of arches the
> > package would be built for to be empty:
> > 
> > ExclusiveArch: x86_64
> > ExclusiveArch: s390x
> > ExclusiveArch: aarch64
> 
> +1. The current union behavior is reasonable, please do not change it 
> incompatibly (and inconsistenly with all other tags, as pointed out above).

I take your point that we shouldn't change it now.  It is however very
weird when you first come across it (with ExclusiveArch).  A syntax
like this would be clear and not incompatible:

  ExclusiveArch: intersection (%{kernel_arches}, %{java_arches})

(Or even using Unicode ‘∩’ :-)

Rich.

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