On 10-02-2006 20:22:06 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:25:47 +0100 Grobian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On 09-02-2006 23:50:08 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | > On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:48:32 +0100 Grobian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > wrote: > | > > Instead of proposing a 4-tuple [3]_ keyword, a 2-tuple > | > > keyword is chosen for archs that require them. > | > > | > Provision should be made for future ports that require more than two > | > keywords. There's no particular reason to artificially limit this to > | > two at this stage. > | > | Can you come up with an example? > > kfreebsd-gnu is, in effect, one example you're using already. You'd have > x86 as the arch, FreeBSD as the kernel and GNU as the userland.
Yes, but you're actually mixing two things here now. The right hand side of the 2-tuple is not a kernel or userland, it is an OS, which includes this in itself. macos (even though the x is missing) implies a darwin kernel, and mixed BSD/GNU userland. If you really want to have kernel and userland in the keyword, then the definition of the keyword should be different, and probably state that it is always a 3-tuple and that the defaults are 'linux' and 'gnu' for the 2nd and 3rd fields respectively. I argue however, that this is not necessary, hence a 2-tuple of "arch-os" is enough to just distinguish it from the others, while also being descriptive to human readers. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
