Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Williams <mike@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 22: New "keyword" system to incorporate various userlands/kernels/archs
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:56:51
Message-Id: 200403091856.23132.mike@gaima.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 22: New "keyword" system to incorporate various userlands/kernels/archs by Jon Portnoy
1 On Tuesday 09 March 2004 18:49, Jon Portnoy wrote:
2 > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:41:50PM +0100, Olivier Crête wrote:
3 > > We could approach this problem from another perspective. Just have -arch
4 > > flags (and +arch flags) for packages which are truly arch specific.. And
5 > > for the rest, a package could not be marked stable unless it has been
6 > > tested on all arches. Maybe using a set of tinderboxes..
7 >
8 > Am I reading this right -- you want to create a bottleneck where an
9 > application can't be marked stable on an arch that may need it to be
10 > stable unless it's also ready to be marked stable on all of the 10
11 > architectures we have?
12
13 Eeep, Gentoo meet Debian, now lets get this party started and stagnate.
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16 Mike Williams