>>>>> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, Fabian Groffen wrote: >> > When you say "arch" you actually mean a keyword as per GLEP-53[1] >> > right? >> >> Which doesn't agree with actual usage in the tree, though.
> That surprises me. Do you have an example of that? The GLEP says about the OS suffix: "The right hand part indicates the operating system or distribution, such as linux, macos, solaris or fbsd. If the right hand part is omitted, it implies the operating system/distribution type is GNU/Linux." So if I understand this correctly, x86-linux should be equivalent to x86. But in reality, the linux suffix denotes that it is a prefix arch. I'm not saying that this is bad, only it's not what the GLEP says. Until recently there was also x64-freebsd vs amd64-fbsd, where both the arch and the OS part denoted the same, but used different tokens to distinguish between prefix and non-prefix. (And I don't understand why amd64 is called x64 on prefix. A different OS suffix should be sufficient.) Ulrich >> > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:53
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