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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] glep-0081: prohibit KEYWORDS altering
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 20:19:39
Message-Id: CAJ0EP41juT9RfATADo3wg4SFt=sSU5_xReHmF+RF=qt_Qf-pjQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] glep-0081: prohibit KEYWORDS altering by Kent Fredric
1 On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 12:02 PM Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 17:55:21 +0200
4 > Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
5 >
6 > > Plus, the eclasses explicitly allow KEYWORDS to be overridden by the
7 > > ebuild:
8 > >
9 > > : ${KEYWORDS:=alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv s390 sh sparc x86 ~ppc-aix ~x64-cygwin ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~m68k-mint ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris}
10 >
11 > I guess the clear limitation that the proposed policy would create, is
12 > that it would be illegal for a package on say, riscv, to be stabilized,
13 > if it depended on any acct-* packages.
14 >
15 > Because the eclass would say "riscv ain't stable", and policy would say
16 > "you can't change keywords on acct-*", which would necessitate that all
17 > acct-* be marked stable for riscv via changing the eclass, in order for
18 > the riscv package to be marked stable.
19
20 But that's exactly what we would want to happen: the value in the
21 eclass should be updated, not individual ebuilds.