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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 02:00:31
Message-Id: 20200319145957.69f0bfcd@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword by James Le Cuirot
1 On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:52:25 +0000
2 James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Not quite. Tools like repoman will need to be updated to understand
5 > that an ebuild with KEYWORDS="amd64" can depend on another ebuild with
6 > only KEYWORDS="noarch". I do think the idea has merit though.
7
8 But the inverse is _not_ true, an ebuild with KEYWORDS="noarch"
9 *cannot* depend on another ebuild with only KEYWORDS="amd64".
10
11 Otherwise it breaks the entire stabilization graph.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword Gerion Entrup <gerion.entrup@×××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>