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From: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 02:07:53
Message-Id: 6376df09-a63e-342d-32e9-ce0d0ac8abff@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword by William Hubbs
1 Hi,
2
3 please don't introduce another keyword.
4
5 Why can't we use "ALLARCHES" stabilization for that?
6
7 However, this will getting more complicated than it will help.
8 Any Python package which compiles something can fail. During my x86 work
9 I have seen a lot of problems when it comes to anything math related (no
10 SSE2, -mfpmath=387...). So as long as we want that a package keyworded
11 for x86 really works on old x86 hardware, we have to go the long route
12 an test it.
13
14
15 --
16 Regards,
17 Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer
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