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From: Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] x86-fbsd keyword in main tree?
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:31:54
Message-Id: 20060309153158.76e1a8a2@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] x86-fbsd keyword in main tree? by Alec Warner
1 On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:20:33 -0500
2 Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Basically portage expands $ARCH into use ( so
5 > x86-fbsd has ARCH x86, and would get "x86" in use, which IMHO, isn't
6 > that horrible ). However, you also don't get x86-fbsd shoved into
7 > USE, so you have to inject it elsewhere, and then users could do
8 > something stupid like -x86-fbsd in make.conf, and unset their ARCH
9 > flag = bad.
10
11 The profiles currently in the overlay set ARCH=x86-fbsd. Whether that's
12 right or not is another debate, but it invalidates that particular
13 problem.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] x86-fbsd keyword in main tree? Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>