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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:49:17
Message-Id: 4AF5DD57.7050508@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations by Peter Volkov
1 Peter Volkov wrote:
2 >> We could introduce "noarch" and "~noarch" KEYWORDS, add "noarch" to
3 >> the default ACCEPT_KEYWORDS setting for all profiles, and instruct
4 >> unstable users to add "~noarch" to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS.
5 >
6 > Looks like this will not work for all noarch packages. Stardict
7 > dictionary itself is noarch, but it RDEPENDS on stardict package which
8 > is keyworded only on some archs. So we'll be forced either to keyword
9 > stardict on all archs or we need to introduce some new way to work with
10 > such situations.
11
12 Keywording stardict on all archs doesn't sound reasonable, so I
13 guess we just need to make sure that repoman will allow the noarch
14 keyword even though the dependencies aren't keyworded on all
15 architectures.
16 --
17 Thanks,
18 Zac

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