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From: "Tiziano Müller" <dev-zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:09:39
Message-Id: gdknq8$uro$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms by Michael Haubenwallner
1 Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
2
3 >
4 > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 20:11 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
5 >
6 >> sparc-solaris
7 >> sparc64-solaris
8 >> x64-solaris
9 >> x86-solaris
10 >
11 >> Perhaps using KEYWORDS for Prefix keywords is not the best thing to do,
12 >> and should we use something like PREFIX_KEYWORDS?
13 >
14 > Maybe there is one thing we should consider:
15 > Since the Solaris kernel is Open now (=OpenSolaris), one could have the
16 > strange idea of adding some "sys-kernel/solaris-sources-2.11.ebuild", to
17 > build some distribution eventually called "Gentoo Solaris", which might
18 > be comparable to Nexenta[1], which uses Debian's APT AFAICS.
19 Already on my agenda once I've got internet at home again, my server up and
20 running and all my current bugs squashed.
21
22 >
23 > As "Gentoo Solaris" would not be the same as "Gentoo Prefix on Solaris",
24 > it should not share the *-solaris keywords used for Prefix via the same
25 > KEYWORDS-setting.
26 what about a new generic schema like: CPU-OS[-prefix] with the possibility
27 of shell expansion in KEYWORDS to have something like this:
28 KEYWORDS="{x86,sparc}-linux" or KEYWORDS="linux: x86 sparc ppc freebsd: x86
29 sparc solaris-prefix: sparc" ?
30
31 Cheers,
32 Tiziano

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