Dearr Fabian, Fabian Groffen <grob...@gentoo.org> writes:
>> Furthermore if the ebuild has "amd64" keyword, it will certainly >> build on amd64-linux too. > > Somewhat likely, but absolutely not true. Sorry, the original phrase was vague. I meant, if an ebuild is keyworded "amd64" and "x86-linux", it will certainly work on "amd64-linux" >> Therefore we propose the following cartesian product extension to >> keyword system. > > We added the keywords as is, to uniquely define which systems it works > on. Assuming something will work because it should be similar is (and > has been proven in the past to be) wrong. Every system is different. We are grouping similar systems into corresponding keywords, and already assuming ability for extrapolation. And now we observe that ARCH and KERNEL are quite independent. They can be decomposed into two dimensions. Why don't me exploit this fact? Cheers, Benda
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