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Matthias Schiffer authored
The rewrite of the feature handling introduced multiple major bugs. One
of them was caused by the way Lua's logical operators work:

An expression of the form

    _'autoupdater' and _'web-advanced'

would return 'web-advanced' rather than the boolean true when _ returned
both strings unchanged (because the features are enabled).

As entries with more than a single feature name in their expressions did
not set no_default, Gluon would then attempt to add gluon-web-advanced to
the package selection, as web-advanced is a "pure" feature.

To fix this, and get rid of the annoying nodefault, separate handling of
"pure" feature and handling of logical expressions into two separate
functions, called feature() and when(). To simplify the feature
definitions, the package list is now passed directly to these functions
rather than in a table with a single field 'packages'.

Fixes: ee5ec5af ("build: rewrite features.sh in Lua")
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