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 1N6vOM-0002rc-3K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:12:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8991E0B28; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f199.google.com (mail-pz0-f199.google.com [209.85.222.199]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B73DEE0B28 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so1420402pzk.10 for ; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:12:24 -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; bh=CYRCUANtd14lKD1z/a4MS7KLqNmp3v4esg+Nu56rXZk=; b=kPCI1/vnuAH+zvfRPaHCfQENl/unB4MEe/iNsJKHAcNkkdQthp/A5GMkWDF+4U5laK fMmTcnI7ogc86rqMgjioU5qHfxr4vf8DCsQZ5HixHU9gU9uaumnEc252zAwOHGu7TfR1 DAwgFhaxMRiyEUy1c96ypfCSGBWelORBinZv0= 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; b=HTYztWVeeWwN+ceFKQsEcE2+/3F4FCTiulv0f5ZQIUbjvJQOsmmqzbnrFHrd+urqkZ +oM2AFthlvH8v3MTFaUKOJ/pS2otH68Lw3r5VxNRGecLilq/lh70/ehp0kGTJIusgkbK 2FiXY7tgXppZoqu3KUTj9GfrZYlft5GLmpvBg= 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 10.115.81.24 with SMTP id i24mr5040819wal.194.1257639144239; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:12:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4AF5DD57.7050508@gentoo.org> References: <200911011736.38401.Arfrever@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> <4AF49E3E.30307@gentoo.org> <1257605665.8341.1314.camel@tablet> <4AF5DD57.7050508@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 05:42:24 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 755becc63502fca1 Message-ID: <8b4c83ad0911071612o6772173ai8fad6204197d37ad@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 X-Archives-Salt: f196d5b6-4d52-4b42-8589-3f7b099cb987 X-Archives-Hash: c43a71b90e3482a09017e463fa272044 On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Zac Medico wrote: > Peter Volkov wrote: >> Looks like this will not work for all noarch packages. Stardict >> dictionary itself is noarch, but it RDEPENDS on stardict package which >> is keyworded only on some archs. So we'll be forced either to keyword >> stardict on all archs or we need to introduce some new way to work with >> such situations. > > Keywording stardict on all archs doesn't sound reasonable, so I > guess we just need to make sure that repoman will allow the noarch > keyword even though the dependencies aren't keyworded on all > architectures. I think we're going a little far trying to solve a management problem with technology. If a herd thinks that a particular package can be safely keyworded (or stabilized) other arches (it just dumps data, is a simple python module, etc); they should make the call and just do it. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team