On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I disagree. I think most of the developers are used to the lexical sort,
> and it keeps the order predictable. While I suppose keeping amd64
> and x86 alongside for the sake of being commonly used would make sense,
> I really have no clue how that would affect other arches.
>

It is a trade-off, of course. My hypothesis is that it would be easier to
use.


> By 'frequency' did you mean how many ebuilds are having the specific
> keyword? Could you make some quick stats that would show how this would
> look like right now?
>

Here's an estimation of the relative frequencies:

amd64 (37201)
x86 (33703)
ppc (15347)
arm (14387)
ppc64 (11647)
sparc (10054)
alpha (9219)
ia64 (8456)
hppa (8410)
arm64 (8194)
amd64-linux (7716)
mips (7602)
x86-linux (7409)
x86-fbsd (6102)
sh (4885)
s390 (4421)
ppc-macos (4098)
x86-macos (4028)
amd64-fbsd (3361)
x86-solaris (3202)
x64-macos (3187)
sparc-solaris (2464)
x64-solaris (2208)
m68k (2204)
sparc64-solaris (1344)
arm-linux (1135)
ppc-aix (971)
sparc-fbsd (902)
m68k-mint (626)
x64-cygwin (432)
x86-winnt (123)
x86-interix (5)
x86-cygwin (5)
ia64-hpux (5)
ppc64-linux (4)
arm64-linux (4)
x86-freebsd (1)

Regards,

Dirkjan

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