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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:13:33
Message-Id: 20091106231350.64be8490@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations by Nirbheek Chauhan
1 On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:36:05 +0530
2 Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote:
5 > > Sounds like we could benefit from the "noarch" approach known in the RPM
6 > > world, such that all these packages can also be immediately keyworded
7 > > and stabilised for all arches.  Would greatly simplify things for a
8 > > great deal of packages, maybe?
9 > >
10 >
11 > This is a good idea; themes, wallpapers, fonts, game-data (stuff that
12 > mostly installs into /usr/share) could easily fall in this category. A
13 > lot of python modules are arch-independant as well (upstream has been
14 > thinking of splitting the install structure to put such things in
15 > /usr/share/python2.6/<etc>).
16 >
17 > Examples of packages:
18 > gnome-extra/gnome-games-extra-data
19 > x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme
20 > kde-base/kdebase-wallpapers
21 > games-fps/quake3-data
22 > app-text/poppler-data
23 > media-fonts/dejavu
24
25 dejavu isn't a good example as it's (optionally) built with fontforge. but
26 other fonts that are basically unpack and install are.
27
28 --
29 fonts, Character is what you are in the dark.
30 gcc-porting,
31 wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662

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