splitting keywords, was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Arch Status and Future Plans

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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> I would hope to split this arch into the two endianness, but I suspect
> nobody has the energy to do it. Oh well.
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> Dev arch. I don't have much info on it, but I heard some mess with
> riscv32 and riscv64, so maybe time to split it? I leave it to riscv arch
> team, which works quite well, but I'll be happy to open discussion for it.

So, technically, splitting a keyword into two is easy to do.

You start with duplicating the KEYWORDS entry in all ebuilds, and duplicating the
profiles. Then both profiles and keywords are pruned where it makes sense,
and they develop independently.

Happy to help with this part as it's mostly mechanical.

The really important part however is what comes afterwards: Separate keywords mean
* separate keywording requests
* separate stable requests
and there should be at least some sort of arch team taking care of that.


-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)

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