-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

On 09/16/11 10:58, Stratos Psomadakis wrote:
> On 09/16/2011 10:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 Mike Frysinger
>> <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>> PS why not merge all x86 abis into one keyword? because
>>>> x86_32 x86_64 x86_x32 are only abis of x86. Also we dont have
>>>> different keywords for different mips abis (64bit and 32bit
>>>> ones)
>>> that'd be nice :)
>> Seems even acceptable. Not sane but acceptable. People tend to
>> keyword packages both '~amd64 ~x86' testing them on amd64 only;
>> amd64 users tend to get sad when someone keyworded a package
>> '~x86' only.
>> 
>> On the other hand, it'd be good to have ABI sub-keywords then. 
>> Something like 'x86:x86 -*' if a package is actually x86-only.
>> 
> I guess there are only a few cases where a package should be
> keyworded for eg x86, but not for amd64, so these few cases can be
> handled by p.masks, right?
> 
> So, we can have a single x86 keyword, and a single x86 'parent'
> profile, and subprofiles for x86(or x86_32), amd64, and x32.
> 
> I guess it's not that simple, but I think that's how the mips
> profiles work?
> 
I am a bit confused by your proposal. Do you suggest to drop 'amd64'
and use x86(parent)/amd64(subprofile)(for x86_64) instead?

- -- 
Regards,
Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux)

iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJOc2XxAAoJEPqDWhW0r/LCUWQQAKdQ+1HcTbdNKdDkMcQna7M3
h9rWzE0BocJcXVji24hfN7JAthpvNohyIQkWgxP3HRCaOCYJ0kaXY+hC8piYrkGS
HPUQ/fV2JhhSgOZpQUmZFc4Db382ILqHk44k2/vYnN27U1yC2rX/GBiZkM/jZAe3
sYZ+DR8R6FCCmquLeWX+8tqE4A11o5hzjC9cMMBVr7iGVKsonWCDgGXSLX3FMfuT
gSAuRfpUHQa0ghCU/tXwH1fso/lDDhvySioJBue2ED432yknhOKtzfdye4Lg00nu
M+pM36sqdF21VMvBtA1H1X5Ok927+jqS19ac8OUy8vI0qq1sIozdzKWOMICvSjf9
UDcIO1+gAA0ZGjR+n5FIrKcFgPm4uHfUFZhG50GMXm3e1TTSOel3OVEngcsYeB7p
WoLPMuuZXVUrT9OXimqt5Ei2F9vkCWeh21zXSHQRmdlFvUsiPogp9ZQoL5cEAs2b
wolRF+haCmRw8tpMJ1fLxba7jOATLnmS0Z0RMXzlHON0jg4/SJa8wyZnQrPiexHq
rlKSI3kIzvpucvYiRn0w0ouMer835BzPpEV5xRcrX2Q2CyfP8JX/GR90ZU7iSSeh
lteqVKvGzg7Nj67OKlfW1WVjPBxhB9N8lPro6PcT2sBaFyatCr+c7phtYEismubN
kw2sbgrD2kp198ogymeq
=biyu
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Reply via email to