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* [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms
@ 2008-10-09 18:11 Fabian Groffen
  2008-10-09 22:05 ` Marius Mauch
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From: Fabian Groffen @ 2008-10-09 18:11 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

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



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2008-10-09 18:11 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms Fabian Groffen
2008-10-09 22:05 ` Marius Mauch
2008-10-10  0:16   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-10-10  2:21     ` Marius Mauch
2008-10-10  7:15       ` Fabian Groffen
2008-10-10 12:40         ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-10-10 12:48           ` Fabian Groffen
2008-10-10 15:56             ` Marius Mauch
2008-10-10 16:13               ` Robert Bridge
2008-10-10 15:21         ` Ryan Hill
2008-10-10  8:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Haubenwallner
2008-10-10 12:56 ` Jeremy Olexa
2008-10-13  5:16   ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-10-13 14:27     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-10-13 17:59       ` Fabian Groffen
2008-10-14  7:48         ` Michael Haubenwallner
2008-10-15 10:20           ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-10-17 14:22 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Haubenwallner
2008-10-21 14:09   ` [gentoo-dev] " Tiziano Müller
2008-10-21 19:01     ` Fabian Groffen

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