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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> wro=
te:
> 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. =C2=A0Would 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>).
>
One exception: we cannot be sure such things will install/work on
x86-fbsd and prefix archs since the differences are more than just
"architecture".
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~Nirbheek Chauhan
Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team