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On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:19:58 -0500 Michael Cummings |
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<mcummings@g.o> wrote: |
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| On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 20:49 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > Now, you've heard that dropping keywords is bad. But you have a |
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| > clever idea, and make the dep alsa? ( !sparc? ( alsa libraries ) ). |
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| > This gets past repoman just fine. |
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| <STOP> As any arch can tell you, that's never stopped me - *IF* you do |
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| it correctly, ie comment out the existing keywords, add the keywords |
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| that the package can support, and file a bug against the arch's that |
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| you had to drop explaining the need for re-keywording because of a |
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| new dep that they don't yet support. AFAIK that's the correct way to |
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| do it |
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Yup. I probably should've mentioned that as part of the explanation... |
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The correct way to proceed, in the general case, is to contact the arch |
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team and ask them to use.mask or keyword deps as appropriate. Keywords |
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can be dropped if and only if a bug is filed. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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