Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] prefix keywords need to go (?)

[Fabian Groffen]

On 25-03-2009 16:44:59 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> If you mean having prefix-keywords in KEYWORDS, then no: live-ebuilds
> might be prefix ready or not, and they usually just have empty KEYWORDS.
> To mark an ebuild prefix ready, IMO it should set PREFIX_KEYWORDS.

What's the difference?  ~x86 != ~x86-linux.  Ebuilds with empty KEYWORDS
technically say they don't work for anything.  It remains a problem,
even when PREFIX_KEYWORDS is set, simply because I don't think you can
(and should) be able to tell if a variable is set in order to mask it in
the resolving phase.  You just evaluate somehow which keywords are to be
accepted, and then you figure out it is masked.

> > For haubi-style ACCEPT_KEYWORDS we need a GLEP/proposal on gentoo-dev
> > for the next EAPI.
>
> Agreed, although I don't think this should be an EAPI thing, as EAPI-0
> ebuilds can have distro-keywords too.

That's true, but you need metadata cache for this not to be awfully
slow, so it won't be painless.  Hence I prefer to stick with my
observation for now that
  ( gentoo-x86-keywords ) U ( prefix-keyword ) = Ø
So, in what what way you want to administer them, they remain the same.


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level