From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [69.77.167.62] (helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KoHYJ-0006gX-1l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:57:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82D25E0688; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:57:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-m2.tc.umn.edu (mta-m2.tc.umn.edu [134.84.135.96]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66CF0E0688 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:57:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.110] (c-71-63-157-77.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [71.63.157.77]) by mta-m2.tc.umn.edu (UMN smtpd) with ESMTP for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:56:55 -0500 (CDT) X-Umn-Remote-Mta: [N] c-71-63-157-77.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [71.63.157.77] #+TS+AU+HN Message-ID: <48EF5116.7080705@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:56:54 -0500 From: Jeremy Olexa User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081001) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms References: <20081009181101.GE21770@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20081009181101.GE21770@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 19531f00-a4c5-4a2f-a04d-ded279af26ee X-Archives-Hash: 3f3ad3ac1e4f78dddd680611b78b78a3 Fabian Groffen wrote: > 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