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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: ALLARCHES
Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 02:26:50
Message-Id: CAGfcS_kfcgRXCFetV+9ViV_8O5_LKZqMgZ=O4w115O28gRaCSg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: ALLARCHES by Daniel Campbell
1 On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > As you said, however, it's a choice of the maintainer. Things like Perl
4 > and Python may be less prone to this issue since they're meant to be
5 > portable.
6 >
7
8 The concept is that the maintainer will only use this when this is the
9 case. The goal is to cut down on stabilization burden esp for minor
10 arches on stuff that should be arch independent. I don't think we
11 formalized a ton of rules - maintainers should know when it is safe to
12 use.
13
14 --
15 Rich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder: ALLARCHES Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>