Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations

[Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Sounds like we could benefit from the "noarch" approach known in the RPM
> world, such that all these packages can also be immediately keyworded
> and stabilised for all arches.  Would greatly simplify things for a
> great deal of packages, maybe?
>

This is a good idea; themes, wallpapers, fonts, game-data (stuff that
mostly installs into /usr/share) could easily fall in this category. A
lot of python modules are arch-independant as well (upstream has been
thinking of splitting the install structure to put such things in
/usr/share/python2.6/<etc>).

Examples of packages:
gnome-extra/gnome-games-extra-data
x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme
kde-base/kdebase-wallpapers
games-fps/quake3-data
app-text/poppler-data
media-fonts/dejavu

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~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team