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>>>>> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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>> > When you say "arch" you actually mean a keyword as per GLEP-53[1] |
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>> > right? |
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>> Which doesn't agree with actual usage in the tree, though. |
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> That surprises me. Do you have an example of that? |
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The GLEP says about the OS suffix: |
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"The right hand part indicates the operating system or distribution, |
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such as linux, macos, solaris or fbsd. If the right hand part is |
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omitted, it implies the operating system/distribution type is |
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GNU/Linux." |
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So if I understand this correctly, x86-linux should be equivalent to |
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x86. But in reality, the linux suffix denotes that it is a prefix |
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arch. I'm not saying that this is bad, only it's not what the GLEP |
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says. |
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Until recently there was also x64-freebsd vs amd64-fbsd, where both |
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the arch and the OS part denoted the same, but used different tokens |
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to distinguish between prefix and non-prefix. (And I don't understand |
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why amd64 is called x64 on prefix. A different OS suffix should be |
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sufficient.) |
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Ulrich |
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>> > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:53 |
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