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On Saturday 11 June 2005 04:15 am, foser wrote: |
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> > if you ever had to do arch-specific KEYWORDing on a frequent basis (and |
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> > i'm 99% sure you have nfc we support other arches than x86 if we use |
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> > arch-specific breakage in GNOME depends as any sort of track record), |
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> If there was ever arch specific breakage -this btw is a baseless claim, |
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> so it shouldn't have been put up here, but I guess that's what populism |
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> is about-, then it is most likely because someone screwed up the |
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> ordering inside one package dir, making it inconsistent and as such a |
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> pain to deal with. |
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baseless ? talk to any hppa/sparc/ia64 (and maybe mips) dev and they should |
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be able to remember a time where a GNOME version bump had missing KEYWORDS in |
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new dependencies ... evolution-data-server comes to mind |
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> > you'd |
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> > know that scattered KEYWORDS is a pita to deal with ... i've seen cases |
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> > where a specific arch was duplicated in KEYWORDS; once near the beginning |
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> > and once near the end ... normally it wasnt anything bad, but there was a |
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> > case where one KEYWORD was stable while the other was unstable |
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> Again something I'd only expect to happen in cases where someone is |
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> reordering keywords at will inside a package. |
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you can expect all you want, i found these cases BEFORE i started |
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alphabetizing KEYWORDS |
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-mike |
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