From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [69.77.167.62] (helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ko00A-0002BF-TU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:12:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BB96E0735; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amun.cheops.ods.org (amun.cheops.ods.org [82.95.138.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B032E0738 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tefnut.cheops.ods.org ([2001:888:1022:0:211:24ff:fe37:e46e] helo=gentoo.org) by amun.cheops.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KnzyZ-0005UW-MJ for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:11:04 +0200 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:11:01 +0200 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms Message-ID: <20081009181101.GE21770@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (Darwin 8.11.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Content-Scanned: by amun.cheops.ods.org (Exim Exiscan) using SpamAssassin and ClamAV X-Archives-Salt: d1cbe610-a893-431c-aa10-4fd899699de1 X-Archives-Hash: fc6dd1fcc73f90ddef08219e43ecc089 Hi all, In the Prefix project we support a bunch of Linux and non-Linux platforms, for which we use GLEP53-style[1] keywords. The current list of keywords known in Prefix are (in no particular order): ppc-aix x86-freebsd ia64-hpux hppa-hpux x86-interix mips-irix amd64-linux x86-linux ppc-macos x86-macos x86-netbsd ppc-openbsd x86-openbsd x64-openbsd sparc-solaris sparc64-solaris x64-solaris x86-solaris x86-winnt Most notably, in Prefix all keywords are full GLEP53 style, which results in e.g. amd64-linux. We did this on purpose, because in Prefix we don't necessarily are on Gentoo Linux. We also chose to expand fbsd, nbsd and obsd to their long variants, mainly because the short variants might clash in the future, for e.g. OpenBSD, OliveBSD or PicoBSD, polyBSD or DragonflyBSD, DesktopBSD. (At some point we were a bit over-enthausiastic.) I would like to hear some opinions on the keywords in general, as well as the particular problem of having Gentoo Linux, and a Linux supported by Gentoo Prefix. Right now there is just the difference of "-linux" appended, however this is not the clearest distinction between the two. Perhaps using KEYWORDS for Prefix keywords is not the best thing to do, and should we use something like PREFIX_KEYWORDS? [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0053.html -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level