Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] the future of Prefix
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:48:01
Message-Id: 1223538473.15256.41.camel@salomon-22
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] the future of Prefix by Fabian Groffen
1 On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 09:11 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 09-10-2008 08:39:59 +0200, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
3 > > Depends on the definition:
4 > > x86: "Gentoo Linux"
5 > > x86-linux: "non-prefixed Gentoo on any Linux"
6 > > x86+linux: "Gentoo Prefix on any Linux"
7 > >
8 > > The *+* is only because there is non-Prefix *-fbsd already.
9 > >
10 > > And "Gentoo Linux" != "non-prefixed Gentoo on any Linux" != "Gentoo
11 > > Prefix on any Linux"
12 > >
13 > > The problem is how to distinguish
14 > > between "non-prefixed Gentoo on FreeBSD" (keyword "*-fbsd")
15 > > and "Gentoo Prefix on FreeBSD" (keyword "*-fbsd" in Prefix ATM)
16 >
17 > Not a problem, as in Prefix, it would be x86-freebsd, because people
18 > convinced me that fbsd is too short and causing inconsistencies, because
19 > nbsd or obsd would have multiple candidates.
20
21 Ah, ok then - sorry, didn't look at current prefix' arch.list.
22
23 Should we want "non-prefixed Gentoo on any platform" to be deprecated?
24
25 /haubi/
26 --
27 Michael Haubenwallner
28 Gentoo on a different level