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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] the future of Prefix
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:34:59
Message-Id: 20081008163432.GD12057@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] the future of Prefix by Jeremy Olexa
1 On 08-10-2008 10:38:45 -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
2 > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o> wrote:
3 >
4 > > Currently, keywords indicate:
5 > > x86: "this runs on [x86] CPU with [Gentoo Linux] OS"
6 > > x86-fbsd: "this runs on [x86] CPU with [FreeBSD] OS"
7 >
8 > May I kindly bring up that point that even in gentoo-x86 tree, x86 ==
9 > x86-linux etc. -linux is the default and the omission of it implies
10 > just that. So, for prefix keywords, do you really want to go down the
11 > road of... x86+$OS.
12 >
13 > x86 == x86-linux != x86+linux
14 >
15 > Just confusing IMO.
16
17 Yeah, and to me still an overloading of the keywording thing with Prefix
18 stuff. PROPERTIES=prefix would be more to my liking.
19
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22 Fabian Groffen
23 Gentoo on a different level

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Re: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] the future of Prefix Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o>