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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations
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On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> 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