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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: cartesian product extension to keyword system
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:43:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130429154303.52b66c5b@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppxdajv8.fsf@proton.in.awa.tohoku.ac.jp>

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:14:51 +0900
heroxbd <heroxbd@gentoo.org> wrote:

> KEYWORDS="~hppa-hpux ~m68k-mint ~ppc-aix ~x64-solaris ~x86-interix["]
> 
> KEYWORDS_ARCH="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64
> ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86"

Regardless of your chance of success in making the extra complexity
manageable, I think moving the tradition KEYWORDS value to
KEYWORDS_ARCH, and reusing KEYWORDS for something else , would
needlessly increase the work required to "migrate" the portage tree.

Why not leave KEYWORDS what it is right now, and expand/change its
meaning using alternate variables so that you can (indefinitely)
maintain backward compatibility?


     jer


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-29 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-29  7:14 [gentoo-dev] RFC: cartesian product extension to keyword system heroxbd
2013-04-29  7:39 ` Fabian Groffen
2013-04-29  9:26   ` heroxbd
2013-04-29  7:53 ` Ben de Groot
2013-04-29  9:31   ` heroxbd
2013-04-29 13:43 ` Jeroen Roovers [this message]
2013-05-09 13:38   ` Alexey Shvetsov

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