Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] the future of Prefix
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:40:17
Message-Id: 90b936c0810080838m2d2beb94oa16dd17b135ebcf5@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] the future of Prefix by Michael Haubenwallner
1 On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > Currently, keywords indicate:
4 > x86: "this runs on [x86] CPU with [Gentoo Linux] OS"
5 > x86-fbsd: "this runs on [x86] CPU with [FreeBSD] OS"
6
7 May I kindly bring up that point that even in gentoo-x86 tree, x86 ==
8 x86-linux etc. -linux is the default and the omission of it implies
9 just that. So, for prefix keywords, do you really want to go down the
10 road of... x86+$OS.
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12 x86 == x86-linux != x86+linux
13
14 Just confusing IMO.

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Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] the future of Prefix Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>