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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:01:21
Message-Id: 20081021190113.GD1823@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms by "Tiziano Müller"
1 On 21-10-2008 16:09:12 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote:
2 > > As "Gentoo Solaris" would not be the same as "Gentoo Prefix on Solaris",
3 > > it should not share the *-solaris keywords used for Prefix via the same
4 > > KEYWORDS-setting.
5 > what about a new generic schema like: CPU-OS[-prefix] with the possibility
6 > of shell expansion in KEYWORDS to have something like this:
7 > KEYWORDS="{x86,sparc}-linux" or KEYWORDS="linux: x86 sparc ppc freebsd: x86
8 > sparc solaris-prefix: sparc" ?
9
10 Such thing sort of solve the problem with multi-line keywords, but might
11 complicate matters which do not justify the cosmetic advantage?
12
13 Having prefix as tag in a keyword isn't such a bad idea, perhaps, since
14 one should really see them as separate from non-prefixed in certain
15 cases. So far we just solved problems via the profiles or newly
16 introduced prefix? conditionals.
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20 Fabian Groffen
21 Gentoo on a different level