On Saturday 11 June 2005 04:15 am, foser wrote: > > if you ever had to do arch-specific KEYWORDing on a frequent basis (and > > i'm 99% sure you have nfc we support other arches than x86 if we use > > arch-specific breakage in GNOME depends as any sort of track record), > > If there was ever arch specific breakage -this btw is a baseless claim, > so it shouldn't have been put up here, but I guess that's what populism > is about-, then it is most likely because someone screwed up the > ordering inside one package dir, making it inconsistent and as such a > pain to deal with.
baseless ? talk to any hppa/sparc/ia64 (and maybe mips) dev and they should be able to remember a time where a GNOME version bump had missing KEYWORDS in new dependencies ... evolution-data-server comes to mind > > you'd > > know that scattered KEYWORDS is a pita to deal with ... i've seen cases > > where a specific arch was duplicated in KEYWORDS; once near the beginning > > and once near the end ... normally it wasnt anything bad, but there was a > > case where one KEYWORD was stable while the other was unstable > > Again something I'd only expect to happen in cases where someone is > reordering keywords at will inside a package. you can expect all you want, i found these cases BEFORE i started alphabetizing KEYWORDS -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
