From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N6SI7-0005xz-95 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:08:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C049FE088D; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:08:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com (mail-pw0-f47.google.com [209.85.160.47]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93BD8E088D for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:08:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj4 with SMTP id 4so810850pwj.26 for ; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:08:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NcV0Z9/i1CV7ynl/QnWE5gEw165N1+vP1G5yGDUrgDI=; b=ZS8ONtOtpQboUEyhWnkSSWc10UWeoNYkJMz8n8jEUJmIEZjqmGd/TNXavJEt0U3L6F PMBs5M6hklWgeOUaJQhxgvlyZ5KEZ16QycumaJwpfMraH5PCieSii5wHMg+Yj/AwPhAe /9Y0rMwRHnhuSEukD/Nscl84z4OsuqpE/DmSc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=rkh8WFm+g4lZExeHs8l/7+Tq01iRlz++CWB5peOkEh+Di/CLKLH1l8jZp775D1wsCe vAPGyRUinmuXjK/o8wL6tX31STUkkojYUddAjhjVDP57MmXTLjKvYOoxrVAJfGYJAe3F ekr5kkft5/AXo1dF3/VqpLeGhim7N5nLJpWEw= 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 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.114.187.7 with SMTP id k7mr6976521waf.106.1257527281103; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:08:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8b4c83ad0911060906j992c037pb76eaa4c65de3680@mail.gmail.com> References: <200911011736.38401.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <20091103191005.18d98e2e@gentoo.org> <4AF1EBD8.4020502@gentoo.org> <20091104214823.64842abd@gentoo.org> <20091105091700.GA17478@eric.schwarzvogel.de> <4AF331B0.4020108@gentoo.org> <8b4c83ad0911060618r2b61c4b4w51238306b9c9a437@mail.gmail.com> <20091106144535.GT1150@gentoo.org> <8b4c83ad0911060906j992c037pb76eaa4c65de3680@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:38:00 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: a99490f6765001fb Message-ID: <8b4c83ad0911060908i72fab1f6pad0958effec7dd9c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations From: Nirbheek Chauhan To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1aba5845-6686-4a09-9fde-095b99d3e3e3 X-Archives-Hash: 356d2f2262311154376d0aa21903b5d7 On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wro= te: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Fabian Groffen 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/). > 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". --=20 ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team