>>>>> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, Mart Raudsepp wrote:

> Ühel kenal päeval, E, 27.03.2017 kell 11:07, kirjutas Fabian Groffen:
>> Back to the topic of the thread, is it possible to make the
>> difference between e.g. x86, x86-linux, x86-solaris and x86-macos
>> in this proposal?

> I believe the intention here is for this file to declare stuff
> about an "arch" in terms of what repoman names it as such
> (--include-arches=, etc), and what profiles.desc has as the first
> column value (in comments it also names that column "arch").

> The filename "arches.desc" just comes from that convention, while
> indeed it really matches what you put in KEYWORDS in terms of ebuild
> usage. I guess that filename is a shed to paint then too.

It also agrees with the PMS usage of the term "architecture":
https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/6/pms.html#x1-610005.3.2
https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/6/pms.html#x1-690007.3.2

Ulrich

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