Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms

[Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org>]

Fabian Groffen wrote:
<snip>
> 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?


Ignoring the bit about how to name the keywords.. ;)

I am undecided about Prefix keywords in the normal KEYWORDS variable. In 
particular, we are overloading the -linux keyword to mean that it will 
run on any linux that Gentoo Prefix supports. This includes, Gentoo, 
RHEL, SLES, FreeMint, $OTHER.

Is there any problem with "overloading" the keywords like that? If not, 
then it shouldn't be a problem to keep prefix keywords in the KEYWORDS 
field. OTOH, I don't think we should add another variable to ebuilds.

Thoughts?

-Jeremy