On Friday 10 February 2006 00:50, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Provision should be made for future ports that require more than two > keywords. There's no particular reason to artificially limit this to > two at this stage. There's a reason: simplicity. More than two part keywords simply are difficult to read, handle and are proving themselves pointless. We just need to identify an operating system (or a variant of it) not a whole complex of dependencies.
> Examples of how this lot is to be used in DEPEND= etc would be good for
> clarity.
Hmm well they are already being used, anyway, the following comes from
rpm2targz:
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
userland_GNU? (
sys-apps/util-linux
sys-apps/which )"
> You should clarify the env map behaviour when multiple matches all
> occur (first match, last match or merge?).
Never thought about that actually, good point. I think last match would be
good.
> You should probably clarify whether the map is part of Portage itself
> or in the tree. If it has to be part of Portage, explain why.
In the tree, to be decided by portage team if it should be in metadata/ or in
profiles/ .
> There're various English issues too where things don't scan clearly to
> a native reader, but it's probably not worth fixing them at this stage.
Thanks, the cleanup of english form is much appreciated.
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