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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: scarabeus@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Stabilisation exceptions
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:56:49
Message-Id: 20110127175526.5fb36d6e@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Stabilisation exceptions by "Tomáš Chvátal"
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4 On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:48:54 +0100
5 Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus@g.o> wrote:
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7 > Dne 27.1.2011 17:30, Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a):
8 > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:19:51 -0600
9 > > Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> wrote:
10 > >> Probably OT, sorry. Isn't it time we gained this concept of
11 > >> "noarch" for packages that only install text files or packages
12 > >> that don't compile anything...
13 > >
14 > > No, since there's no such thing as an app that's guaranteed to be
15 > > portable.
16 > >
17 > Yeah like ebuild consisting of one posix-sh script or ebuild that
18 > installs only png files...
19
20 Well, a posix-sh script might still call software which is not that
21 portable. If we do a thing like that, we would probably need to
22 reconsider the concept of package stabilization (due to dependencies).
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24 - --
25 Best regards,
26 Michał Górny
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