Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] subprofiles for ARM architecture

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 01:50:42PM +0200, Raúl Porcel wrote:
>> With subprofiles we could keyword such packages, mask them globally on
>> arm and unmask it on the subprofile of the subarchitecture that supports it.
> I suggest you go and look at the solution that was in place for MIPS
> subarches as well to take that into consideration.
>
> I think it still exists in: mips-sources, arcboot, arcload.
> The latter two being bootloaders that need to be specifically configured
> for the subarch else they just don't work.

We did have that, but I removed it because the profiles weren't
maintained. On MIPS, the purpose was to simply prevent things like
arcload from being installed on systems where arcload doesn't
work/isn't useful, which is only minimally useful itself.

ARM seems to have a much better reason for doing this -- packages
won't even compile on some subarchs.

Matt