From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5BKapkM028145 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:36:51 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DhCiy-0000bL-8t for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:37:00 +0000 Received: (qmail 23953 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2005 16:33:26 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 11 Jun 2005 16:33:26 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 16:37:02 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20050606222623.GI9084@kaf.zko.hp.com> <200506101233.33994.vapier@gentoo.org> <1118477722.13125.44.camel@rivendell> In-Reply-To: <1118477722.13125.44.camel@rivendell> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506111637.02400.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: dd90e9de-512e-4994-864c-024e8f9afe84 X-Archives-Hash: 1e2daec22b623a2f0840c969bc5f64a6 On Saturday 11 June 2005 04:15 am, foser wrote: > > if you ever had to do arch-specific KEYWORDing on a frequent basis (and > > i'm 99% sure you have nfc we support other arches than x86 if we use > > arch-specific breakage in GNOME depends as any sort of track record), > > If there was ever arch specific breakage -this btw is a baseless claim, > so it shouldn't have been put up here, but I guess that's what populism > is about-, then it is most likely because someone screwed up the > ordering inside one package dir, making it inconsistent and as such a > pain to deal with. baseless ? talk to any hppa/sparc/ia64 (and maybe mips) dev and they should be able to remember a time where a GNOME version bump had missing KEYWORDS in new dependencies ... evolution-data-server comes to mind > > you'd > > know that scattered KEYWORDS is a pita to deal with ... i've seen cases > > where a specific arch was duplicated in KEYWORDS; once near the beginning > > and once near the end ... normally it wasnt anything bad, but there was a > > case where one KEYWORD was stable while the other was unstable > > Again something I'd only expect to happen in cases where someone is > reordering keywords at will inside a package. you can expect all you want, i found these cases BEFORE i started alphabetizing KEYWORDS -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list