Am Montag, 5. August 2024, 00:39:13 CEST schrieb Robin H. Johnson:

> > Step 2: Formally introduce the new keywords in ebuilds by duplication.
> > Any "ppc64" in keywords becomes "ppc64 ppc64le".
> > Any "riscv" becomes "riscv riscv32 riscv64".
> > No exceptions. Can be done automatically. Until the "lock" is removed,
> > any keywording operations always have to add and remove all of one set.
> How do we identify something that was labelled as ppc64 and was
> pre-split, vs something that is post-split, and ONLY supposed PPC64 big
> endian, and NOT ppc64le.

Different profile selection (already now, ppc64 and ppc64le are different
profile trees).

> Under this proposal, both of variants would have KEYWORDS="ppc64".
> 
> What if the ppc64 splits into ppc64be & ppc64le to be extremely clear?
> 
> ...
> > Step 8: Remove all riscv keywords (no 64 or 32)
> > 
> > Step 9: Remove riscv as arch.
> Remove ppc64 without le/be suffixes.

Possible but more work...

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