* [gentoo-user] What do new keywords mean?
@ 2011-09-05 6:24 Walter Dnes
2011-09-05 6:34 ` JD Horelick
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From: Walter Dnes @ 2011-09-05 6:24 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Gentoo Users List
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?
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
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* Re: [gentoo-user] What do new keywords mean?
2011-09-05 6:24 [gentoo-user] What do new keywords mean? Walter Dnes
@ 2011-09-05 6:34 ` JD Horelick
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From: JD Horelick @ 2011-09-05 6:34 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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