From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N6dcD-0002aZ-44 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:13:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8F97E0826; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:13:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A658DE0826 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:13:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AAC267ACE for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:13:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.176 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.176 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.066, BAYES_05=-1.11] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pytCeBUP7qNC for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1991674ED for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:13:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N6dbz-0000NO-7n for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:13:19 +0100 Received: from 64-201-202-141.regn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca ([64.201.202.141]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:13:19 +0100 Received: from dirtyepic by 64-201-202-141.regn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:13:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Ryan Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:13:50 -0600 Message-ID: <20091106231350.64be8490@gentoo.org> References: <200911011736.38401.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <200911021724.01069.hwoarang@gentoo.org> <20091103191005.18d98e2e@gentoo.org> <4AF1EBD8.4020502@gentoo.org> <20091104214823.64842abd@gentoo.org> <20091105091700.GA17478@eric.schwarzvogel.de> <4AF331B0.4020108@gentoo.org> <8b4c83ad0911060618r2b61c4b4w51238306b9c9a437@mail.gmail.com> <20091106144535.GT1150@gentoo.org> <8b4c83ad0911060906j992c037pb76eaa4c65de3680@mail.gmail.com> 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/IiCwTIgEsCPk+cFIcZJV8Fr"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64-201-202-141.regn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.18.3; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: a72bae30-4f55-49ea-a468-146d545fe8c8 X-Archives-Hash: b28db13b25f791c8e7739e73f16762f6 --Sig_/IiCwTIgEsCPk+cFIcZJV8Fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:36:05 +0530 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > Sounds like we could benefit from the "noarch" approach known in the RPM > > world, such that all these packages can also be immediately keyworded > > and stabilised for all arches. =C2=A0Would greatly simplify things for a > > great deal of packages, maybe? > > >=20 > This is a good idea; themes, wallpapers, fonts, game-data (stuff that > mostly installs into /usr/share) could easily fall in this category. A > lot of python modules are arch-independant as well (upstream has been > thinking of splitting the install structure to put such things in > /usr/share/python2.6/). >=20 > Examples of packages: > gnome-extra/gnome-games-extra-data > x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme > kde-base/kdebase-wallpapers > games-fps/quake3-data > app-text/poppler-data > media-fonts/dejavu dejavu isn't a good example as it's (optionally) built with fontforge. but other fonts that are basically unpack and install are. --=20 fonts, Character is what you are in the dark. gcc-porting, wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 --Sig_/IiCwTIgEsCPk+cFIcZJV8Fr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkr1AhwACgkQiqiDRvmkBmKT+ACguZZ8HZ07tUyFolYss9ID+0fJ DKIAoL+JyAAfNEg+OY2nMRFmX8ThEIec =6Iaz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/IiCwTIgEsCPk+cFIcZJV8Fr--