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From: Finn Thain <fthain@××××××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-osx@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-osx] On keywording ppc-macos
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:52:17
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.63.0508241843430.21798@loopy.telegraphics.com.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-osx] On keywording ppc-macos by Finn Thain
1 On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Finn Thain wrote:
2
3 > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Kito wrote:
4 >
5 > >
6 > > On Aug 23, 2005, at 12:30 PM, Grobian wrote:
7 > >
8 > > On a somewhat related note, we need to decide sooner than later on how
9 > > distinguish between the collision-protect and non-collision-protected
10 > > profiles in ebuilds, as some things that are getting in the tree break
11 > > with a proper gentoo environment, mostly auto{conf,make} issues at the
12 > > moment (-a -c -f stuff, etc) , as well as python issues creeping up as
13 > > well, but this will probably get more convoluted very shortly...
14
15 [snip]
16 >
17 > Now, if an ebuild needs to know that it has "2nd class" status, wouldn't a
18 > use flag be appropriate? And if you were to implement such a use flag,
19 > could it not be useful to other second-class citizens? For example, in
20 > "portage for non-Gentoo Linux" or "portage for solaris" profiles.
21
22 Actually, such a use flag is probably redundant. Isn't that what the the
23 "macos" in "ppc-macos" is for?
24
25 I suspect the whole question goes away when portage gets prefixes. So my
26 post was probably just noise. Sorry.
27
28 -f
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Re: [gentoo-osx] On keywording ppc-macos Kito <kito@g.o>