Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

[Ferris McCormick]

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On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:

> On Monday 06 June 2005 23:26, Aron Griffis wrote:
>>
>> I am willing to revert the ekeyword change if that is what devs would
>> prefer, but I won't make the change without a discussion on -dev,
>> which was my mistake last time.  Your thoughts?
>>
> I also vote for alpha. I would like to see some indication of maintainer arch
> in metadata too, but in general agree with the policy of if one arch
> stabilises then we can assume that is the maintainer arch.
>

I also like alpha, but that is not what I am responding to.  And I have to 
admit that I haven't followed this too closely.  But the "if one arch 
stabalises..." assumption can be misleading.  For example, xorg-x11 
maintainer arch is x86 (spyderous will correct me if I am wrong), but I 
know of at least once instance in which sparc (and a few other archs) were 
stable ahead of x86.

Granted, spyderous knew what was going on and why, but for a few days 
there, the "stabilises" rule of thumb with nothing more would have led the 
unsuspecting reader to believe that maintainer arch for xorg was sparc.

Of course, as a guide, this rule will generally be correct.  Just not all 
the time.

> Thanks,
>
> Marcus
>
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Regards,
Ferris

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