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From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed solution to arches/stable problem
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:45:17
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.58.0406221809540.11067@lacewing.inforead.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed solution to arches/stable problem by Ciaran McCreesh
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4 On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
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6 > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:36:53 -0400 Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
7 > wrote:
8 > | What do you think of my more recent suggestion, that we use the first
9 > | keyword in the list to indicate the maintainer's arch, thereby
10 > | alleviating the need for an additional keyword?
11 >
12 > I think it won't work, because there are already stacks of packages in
13 > the tree where the keywording order is arbitrary.
14 >
15 > Why not put a <maintainernotes> in metadata.xml instead? Much cleaner,
16 > provides much more information, doesn't imply meaning in an existing
17 > field which does not currently provide any information.
18 >
19 Assuming there is one, I like this better than the keyword.
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22 > Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
23 > Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
24 > Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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26 >
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29 Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
30 Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc)
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