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 1R0Sm9-00048p-Rl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:35:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34FD221C0B3; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 06:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F6621C0F3 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 06:34:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxd23 with SMTP id 23so3990800fxd.40 for ; Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:34:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=LcidP3K6u9qYt9swg8AS6+FY6aZWtDjjKYwnrT0HaGQ=; b=OusDbEtEksFmd+V8uma+aK2cJORk+vzIjdUjmZrKWrYSVmR5r2uoM5z4gUFIH6bsyn gOEN9ioUx66NnVikjD17k9+UC/VSG6iy3Qs16AXhyaAb0REnxkBJRgI79P5CFzR04t0U UjNt4lFcmpuPZXFaq9wHxJj3qn2Kh2cZf0Ebg= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.74.89 with SMTP id t25mr4588842faj.65.1315204449852; Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:34:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.60.73 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 23:34:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110905062430.GA18198@waltdnes.org> References: <20110905062430.GA18198@waltdnes.org> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 02:34:09 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What do new keywords mean? From: JD Horelick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8e23c841783b2b6d6ccae682a3b9e40e On 5 September 2011 02:24, Walter Dnes wrote: > =A0Whilst spelunking through ebuild files I notice that in addition to > the usual ~amd64 and ~x86 keywords, I also see ~amd64-linux and > ~x86-linux. =A0What is the significance of this? > > -- > Walter Dnes > > 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.