Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations

[Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org>]

В Вск, 08/11/2009 в 10:05 +0100, Fabian Groffen пишет:
> On 07-11-2009 17:54:25 +0300, Peter Volkov wrote:
> > > We could introduce "noarch" and "~noarch" KEYWORDS, add "noarch" to
> > > the default ACCEPT_KEYWORDS setting for all profiles, and instruct
> > > unstable users to add "~noarch" to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS.
> > 
> > Looks like this will not work for all noarch packages. Stardict
> > dictionary itself is noarch, but it RDEPENDS on stardict package which
> > is keyworded only on some archs. So we'll be forced either to keyword
> > stardict on all archs or we need to introduce some new way to work with
> > such situations.
> 
> Would it be reasonable to just mask in such case?  Resolution would
> eventually just hit the masked stardict dictionary and display the
> reason why it's masked (stardict doesn't compile, not yet looked into
> keywording: please try, etc.)

As I understand: absense of ~arch keyword means package is masked on
~arch since nobody yet looked at this package.

I was asking here: since noarch is allowed on all archs, how this noarch
over arch KEYWORD stacking may work?

-- 
Peter.