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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Stabilisation exceptions
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:50:58
Message-Id: pan.2011.01.27.18.45.01@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Stabilisation exceptions by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh posted on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:36:59 +0000 as excerpted:
2
3 > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:27:57 +0000 (UTC)
4 > Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
5 >> Tomáš Chvátal posted on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:59:53 +0100 as excerpted:
6 >> > If ebuild contains ~noarch in KEYWORDS it is not permitted to contain
7 >> > anything else.
8 >>
9 >> /If/ we're going to go this route, at least noarch plus -arch, so
10 >> archs can at least opt-out.
11 >
12 > KEYWORDS doesn't work that way!
13 >
14 > If you accept foo bar, and an ebuild has KEYWORDS foo -bar, then you're
15 > accepting foo, so it's not masked.
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17 Implied was that we're special-casing noarch, "some coding required".
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