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>>>>> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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>>> Jeroen Roovers kirjoitti: |
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>>>> The list of architectures that Gentoo supports is one of its |
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>>>> greatest assets. It is important that Gentoo makes available |
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>>>> an as large as possible set of packages to as many platforms |
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>>>> as is sanely doable. For this purpose we have a testing and |
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>>>> stabilisation system that depends on architecture keywords |
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>>>> being propagated from one version to the next. I would like |
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>>>> to stress to all package maintainers that dropping keywords, |
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>>>> i.e. removing any architecture's keyword entirely, instead of |
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>>>> replacing "arch" with "~arch", _hurts_ the Gentoo Project. |
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> Isn't what you wrote the existing policy? |
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If it is, then the last question of the end-quiz should be changed: |
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| 19. You are bumping foomatic's ebuild from version 1.5 to version |
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| 2.0. This new version is a massive rewrite which introduces |
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| huge changes to the build system, the required libraries |
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| and how the code works. What will you do for KEYWORDS here? |
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My answer to it (about one year ago) wasn't in agreement with Jeroen's |
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above statement, but my mentor and my recruiter were satisfied with it |
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at the time. |
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Ulrich |
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