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On 07-11-2009 17:54:25 +0300, Peter Volkov wrote: |
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> > > Sounds like we could benefit from the "noarch" approach known in the RPM |
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> > > world, such that all these packages can also be immediately keyworded |
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> > > and stabilised for all arches. Would greatly simplify things for a |
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> > > great deal of packages, maybe? |
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> > We could introduce "noarch" and "~noarch" KEYWORDS, add "noarch" to |
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> > the default ACCEPT_KEYWORDS setting for all profiles, and instruct |
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> > unstable users to add "~noarch" to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. |
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> Looks like this will not work for all noarch packages. Stardict |
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> dictionary itself is noarch, but it RDEPENDS on stardict package which |
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> is keyworded only on some archs. So we'll be forced either to keyword |
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> stardict on all archs or we need to introduce some new way to work with |
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> such situations. |
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Would it be reasonable to just mask in such case? Resolution would |
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eventually just hit the masked stardict dictionary and display the |
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reason why it's masked (stardict doesn't compile, not yet looked into |
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keywording: please try, etc.) |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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