On Friday 17 January 2014 02:02:51 grozin@gentoo.org wrote:
> Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for such
> packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a package is
> ~noarch, it is automatically considered ~arch for all arches. Similar for
> stable. The maintainer should be able to keyword ~noarch and to stabilize
> noarch. Comments?

you mean * ?  this already works today (at least with portage):
	KEYWORDS="~*"
	KEYWORDS="*"

in fact, i was planning on converting Chromium OS over to use this instead of 
a list of arches.  but that's because we run a simpler system of there really 
only being two sets of ebuilds in the tree -- stable for all and unstable for 
all.

for the ebuilds that are truly arch-specific (or otherwise need restricting), 
then we'll do:
	KEYWORDS="-* ~arm"
-mike