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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] macos keyword
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:38:27
Message-Id: 200407280938.22986.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] macos keyword by Danny van Dyk
1 On Monday 26 July 2004 07:04 pm, Danny van Dyk wrote:
2 > | The fifth field "distribution", is not part of GLEP 22, however it was
3 > | discussed that both macos as well as bsd would need the fifth field to
4 > | differentiate between different operating environments. For example,
5 > | adium is a net-im application which works on macos, but would not work
6 > | on pure darwin.
7 >
8 > Well, i would put this into the USERLAND part:
9 > ppc[64]-mach-macos-libsystem
10 > ppc[64]-mach-darwin-libsystem
11 >
12 > Mac OSX userland _is_ different from bsd userland, so just put it there.
13
14 agreed
15
16 > | under this same category. For example, x86-linux-gnu-glibc-suse.
17 >
18 > That keyword is imho nonsense: a keyword shall distinguish between
19 > premisses. I can't imagine a situation, in which an application would
20 > refuse to work under SUSE linux because it is SUSE, apart from missing
21 > dependencies. But the keyword should not be about package dependencies !
22
23 ++agreed
24
25 > I don't think we need an amendment, GLEP 22 is sufficient for this.
26
27 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58655
28 -mike
29
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