Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add support for package.keywords in profiles?

[Peter Volkov]

В Пнд, 25/08/2008 в 11:40 -0700, Zac Medico пишет:
> Peter Volkov wrote:
> > It's good feature for overlays, but I think we should avoid this in
> > portage tree as having same information in two places can be avoided in
> > this case: it's better and not so hard to write tool which will keyword
> > packages based on package.keywords file and new keywords could be chosen
> > like GLEP 22 suggests.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the purpose of this tool that you mention.
>  Are you saying that package.keywords might be a good thing to use
> initially and then later, if we choose (maybe we will or maybe we
> won't), we have the option do an automated migrations of specific
> profiles to separate keywords like those in GLEP 22?

Yes. And by initially I meant overlays outside Gentoo tree and then this
tool could be useful during merge with portage tree.

> The question of whether or not we should implement package.keywords
> for the sake of private profiles should be considered separately from
> the question of whether or not we choose a policy to allow the use of
> package.keywords in one or more of our official gentoo profiles.

Ok, then my answer is yes.


With best regards,
-- 
Peter.