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On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:28:06 +0200 |
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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> Since Gentoo is quite an aging technical community, a lot of wording |
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> has accumulated to describe various ebuild-related aspects, some of it |
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> rather confusing and/or outdated. Therefore, I would like to suggest |
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> that we establish some 'proper' vocabulary for use in official |
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> documentation, and deprecate some of the outdated concepts. |
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The area I find brings the most confusion is keywording. |
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Specific keywords are sometimes referred to as archs, even though they |
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are not really architectures in the general sense. Targets might be a |
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better word. |
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I've seen "masked" used to describe both ~ keywords and what we |
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sometimes refer to as "hard masked". I'd rather refer to ~ keywords as |
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unstable to keep the concepts separated. |
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Even the verb "keywording" can be confusing, does it mean adding |
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initial ~ keywords or marking existing keywords stable? It probably |
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means either and therefore we should avoid using that word. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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