Okay, solar asked me yesterday, and I think this might be the good moment to start this out. Right now the x86-fbsd keyword is not being used in the main tree, and the whole Gentoo/FreeBSD is handled in an overlay, sharing the ~x86 keyword with standard Gentoo/Linux. Unfortunately this has a series of drawbacks:
- we need to package.mask packages that could just not have ~x86-fbsd keyword at all (because being linux specifics); - we can see the last working version of a package go away because later versions are ~x86 and they don't work for us (old flex might have been an example but that's now fixed; findutils can be another example); - we cannot make sure that the deptree is satisfied. To bring ~x86-fbsd keywording in main tree, we mainly need to move a true profile in the tree, not a dummy one, mark it as indev and start the keywording. (I've already cleaned up the default-bsd/fbsd profile so that it does work with the current base/ profile. As long as virtual/libc is not in the dependencies, it shouldn't trigger any kind of problems to leave the sys-freebsd category in the overlay, if we really need to start needing that, I'll see to make the ebuild quality level. It's not going to be a quick thing, as I'm mostly alone with Gentoo/FreeBSD right now (help is always welcome), but times are mature so that I can provide a decent experience to users. Can anybody name a showstopper to this? -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE
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