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From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed solution to arches/stable problem
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:00:40
Message-Id: 20040622175445.GJ8968@mustard.zk3.dec.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed solution to arches/stable problem by Aron Griffis
1 Aron Griffis wrote: [Tue Jun 22 2004, 01:33:19PM EDT]
2 > first keyword: not as visible as special prefix. However doesn't
3 > require a gradual transition for most packages, since in most
4 > cases the first keyword is already the maintainer's arch.
5 > This is true simply because the current keywords order
6 > indicates the order in which the keywords were added. (This
7 > was standardized by drobbins sometime last year... I will try
8 > to dig up the email if you are interested)
9
10 Btw, although this is not *as* visible, it would still be very
11 visible to developers via repoman, which could be modified to warn (or
12 even require a flag similar to --ignore-other-arches) when jumping
13 ahead of the maintainer's arch.
14
15 Regards,
16 Aron
17
18 --
19 Aron Griffis
20 Gentoo Linux Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed solution to arches/stable problem Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>