Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] glep-0081: prohibit KEYWORDS altering

[Michał Górny]

On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 11:32 -0400, Brian Evans wrote:
> On 8/7/2019 11:20 AM, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@g.o>
> > ---
> > As discussed with mgorny at #gentoo-qa
> >  glep-0081.rst | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/glep-0081.rst b/glep-0081.rst
> > index 082e705..e5a4db2 100644
> > --- a/glep-0081.rst
> > +++ b/glep-0081.rst
> > @@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ a build time dependency (``DEPEND``) must be used.  If the user is
> >  needed at install and/or run time, a run time dependency (``RDEPEND``)
> >  must be used.
> >
> > +Both ``acct-group`` and ``acct-user`` eclasses have the ``KEYWORDS``
> > +variable predefined, keywords must not be altered locally via ebuilds.
> > +
> >
> >  Maintaining users/groups
> >  ------------------------
> >
>
> I object to this as I feel they can incorrect such as on prefix.
>
> Also, this goes against the established practice of committing directly
> to stable.  These are exactly the same as virtuals as "they install
> nothing" and "just run a script" (to verify dependencies).
>

We don't do stabilization for virtuals.  We set KEYWORDS to be the union
of KEYWORDS of providers.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny