On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 6:52 AM Gerion Entrup <gerion.ent...@flump.de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 19. März 2020, 02:59:56 CET schrieb Kent Fredric: > > On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:52:25 +0000 > > James Le Cuirot <ch...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > Not quite. Tools like repoman will need to be updated to understand > > > that an ebuild with KEYWORDS="amd64" can depend on another ebuild with > > > only KEYWORDS="noarch". I do think the idea has merit though. > > > > But the inverse is _not_ true, an ebuild with KEYWORDS="noarch" > > *cannot* depend on another ebuild with only KEYWORDS="amd64". > Maybe I misunderstand something but shouldn't that be the normal case? > Every single Python package (candidates for noarch) for example depends > on the Python interpreter, which must have non noarch keywords. > > > > Otherwise it breaks the entire stabilization graph. > The condition would be: If the interpreter is stable for an arch, all > it's interpreted code is also stable for this arch. > Much of the concern is that this condition is not true for all interpreted code. -A > > > Best, > Gerion > >
