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From: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:56:47
Message-Id: 1257684920.8341.1372.camel@tablet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations by Zac Medico
1 В Сбт, 07/11/2009 в 12:49 -0800, Zac Medico пишет:
2 > Peter Volkov wrote:
3 > >> We could introduce "noarch" and "~noarch" KEYWORDS, add "noarch" to
4 > >> the default ACCEPT_KEYWORDS setting for all profiles, and instruct
5 > >> unstable users to add "~noarch" to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS.
6 > >
7 > > Looks like this will not work for all noarch packages. Stardict
8 > > dictionary itself is noarch, but it RDEPENDS on stardict package which
9 > > is keyworded only on some archs. So we'll be forced either to keyword
10 > > stardict on all archs or we need to introduce some new way to work with
11 > > such situations.
12 >
13 > Keywording stardict on all archs doesn't sound reasonable, so I
14 > guess we just need to make sure that repoman will allow the noarch
15 > keyword even though the dependencies aren't keyworded on all
16 > architectures.
17
18 But how will portage handle such situations? Will it allow installation
19 of noarch package and pull in *DEPEND only if possible, or will it
20 prohibit installation of noarch pkgs with unsatisfied deps? The latter
21 will make life harder for tools like eix, I guess.
22
23 --
24 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>