[gentooppc-dev] Re: keyword explicitness | gnome-extra/battstat, x11-misc-bbapm

[Calum Selkirk]

* nall [nall@××××××××××××××××.net] [2002-10-10 09:17 -0500]:

> i'm curious how explicit package keywords have to be. for instance, if
> package A depends on package B and package B has "-ppc", should
> package A also get "-ppc" (perhaps with a comment as to what
> dependency is causing it to be being -ppc'ed)?
>
> i realize that there's no real harm here, since dependencies will take
> care of not letting A be installed. i'm just curious if we're trying
> to get rid of all instances of ppc not being addressed in KEYWORDS
> (ie: making sure that either "ppc" or "-ppc" is in the KEYWORDS of all
> ebuilds).

Agreed it isn't ideal at present. I think the answer is yes, ebuilds
should be either ppc -ppc (and/or now ~ppc).

> if we're being explicit, the following should get -ppc since they
> depend on sys-apps/apmd, (which is -ppc):
>
> gnome-extra/battstat
> x11-misc/bbapm

I'm speculating (untested) apmd may not actually be necessary for these
ebuilds (and so we should probably change this DEPEND based on ppc? x86?).
I think these applications are less helpful than the existing
pmu/battery tools for ppc (still the choice should be left to the user).

I'm basing this on CONFIG_PMAC_APM_EMU=y .. from Configure.help:

CONFIG_PMAC_APM_EMU
  This driver provides an emulated /dev/apm_bios and /proc/apm. The
  first one is mostly intended for XFree to sleep & wakeup properly,
  the second ones provides some battery informations to allow existing
  APM utilities to work. It provides less useful informations than
  tools specifically designed for PowerBooks or /proc/pmu/battery_x

This option does not seem to be in ppc-sources-2.4.19-r6 (but with
recent benh kernels) so we should perhaps KEYWORD -ppc until a time
when we can test with a kernel that has this.

best

cal