Re: [gentoo-alt] Clue transfer request: prefix/gx86 keywording policy/state-of-the-art?

[Fabian Groffen]

On 01-11-2015 13:24:03 -0800, Greg Turner wrote:
> Consider this hypothetical KEYWORDS specifier I generated merging some
> gx86 and prefix content:
>
> KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc
> ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd
> ~ppc-aix ~x64-freebsd ~x86-freebsd ~hppa-hpux ~ia64-hpux ~x86-interix
> ~amd64-linux ~ia64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos
> ~m68k-mint ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
>
> I don't see a lot of stuff like the above ... well, anywhere.  So ...
> is it wrong?  I'm at a loss as to why it would be.

So.  I think your problem is stuff like ~x86 and ~x86-linux.

There once was a GLEP and all that, but I'm not sure it's reflecting
reality and all that.  When the migration of Prefix to gx86 became
a thing, we made a decision.  We used full keywords everywhere: arch-os,
gx86 used arch, just because it always was proper Gentoo Linux.  The
FBSD folk used -fbsd, and we used -freebsd.  So, here's the mess: we
decided to merge all keywords, for they were simply all unique.  It
requires a bit of knowledge (should be able to extract it from the
profiles) to know which keyword belongs to what project.

Hope this helps a bit.

Fabian

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Fabian Groffen
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