From: JD Horelick <jdhore1@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What do new keywords mean?
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 02:34:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFhp8z5hefoXuYoLUDkqwmZ9n-AxKL2Kyg8eUJMR6WAi47Qfaw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110905062430.GA18198@waltdnes.org>
On 5 September 2011 02:24, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> Whilst spelunking through ebuild files I notice that in addition to
> the usual ~amd64 and ~x86 keywords, I also see ~amd64-linux and
> ~x86-linux. What is the significance of this?
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
>
>
As far as I am aware, Gentoo now supports something called prefix
installations where you can use portage on top of (at least some of)
the BSD's and Solaris and some old-school Unixes and other operating
systems that aren't linux, the ~x86-linux keywords are to just signify
that it's only being stabilised for linux, not any of the other
operating systems. I could be wrong though.
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2011-09-05 6:24 [gentoo-user] What do new keywords mean? Walter Dnes
2011-09-05 6:34 ` JD Horelick [this message]
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