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From a freshly reported bug: |
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Reproducible: Always |
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Steps to Reproduce: |
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1. Install gentoo for OSX and not be perfectly comfortable you did it right. |
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2. Add ~ppc-macos to the keywords for the mediawiki-1.4.9.ebuild. |
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3. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~ppc-macos" emerge mediawiki |
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Here is where I want the discussion to start. I myself would have done |
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it exact the same way, and I see it happen a lot. In fact, I even think |
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this is the way the Gentoo docs advocate the use of ~arch. |
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What's wrong with it? |
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In a recent discussion I found out this is, however, not the way some |
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other people see the use of ~arch. Instead they assume your whole |
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system is ~arch. |
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This very bug reported might be fixed if the whole system would be |
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~ppc-macos, however, the user doesn't want that. Instead, the user |
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wants to use an unstable package, to have a very isolated case, where an |
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unstable package lives as a stable one. As far as I know, this is the |
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whole thing on Portage. It allows you to do this, and it enables you to |
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do this, and it even facilitates you to do this more automated, for |
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instance via package.keywords. |
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My opinion here is that there is something wrong if portage isn't able |
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to tell what it needs to run a package in ~ppc-macos. Maybe this is not |
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easily fixable, and should we do some extra hacks to make the two worlds |
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play nice again. However, I don't think having a fully ~arch system is |
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equal to a user that runs a stable system and wants to grab one package |
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from the unstable branch. I consider the first case to be 'progressive' |
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(not in the ppc-macos sense) or 'bleeding edge' while the latter case is |
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more realistic and what happens in real life: 'controlled risk'. |
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I like to straighten out this issue, so everyone knows what should be |
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done or not be done. I just assumed the only vision I knew was what |
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everyone has in mind, and this appears not to be like this. I think |
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it's directly related to QA and I feel my actions largely depend on it. |
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So, until I know what I'm doing is right or wrong, I won't do anything. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo for Mac OS X |
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