В письме от 29 апреля 2013 15:43:03 пользователь Jeroen Roovers написал:
> 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?

Its not necessary. We simply may not define KEYWORDS but only define KEYWORDS_* 
vars. So old package managers versions will treat that as we have empty 
keywords

> 
> 
>      jer
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