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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Add support for package.keywords in	profiles?
From:       Zac Medico <zmedico () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2008-08-25 18:40:39
Message-ID: 48B2FCA7.4040301 () gentoo ! org
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Peter Volkov wrote:
> В Вск, 17/08/2008 в 17:24 -0700, Zac Medico пишет:
>> At least a few people have expressed a desire to have support for a
>> package.keywords file in the profiles [1] as a means to add or
>> subtract any number values to or from the KEYWORDS that apply to a
>> given ebuild.
> 
> It's good feature for overlays, but I think we should avoid this in
> portage tree as having same information in two places can be avoided in
> this case: it's better and not so hard to write tool which will keyword
> packages based on package.keywords file and new keywords could be chosen
> like GLEP 22 suggests.

I'm not sure I understand the purpose of this tool that you mention.
 Are you saying that package.keywords might be a good thing to use
initially and then later, if we choose (maybe we will or maybe we
won't), we have the option do an automated migrations of specific
profiles to separate keywords like those in GLEP 22?

> Or do we really want to start using profiles to force toolchain (e.g.
> gcc versions) like bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55321#c3 comment
> suggests? If so than maybe it's better to move keywording information
> from ebuilds to profiles and than may be there is better solution
> instead of having one package.keywords file?

Obviously there are an infinite number of possible approaches. The
main reason I brought this up was that a user had expressed a desire
to have package.keywords for use in private profiles (not the
official gentoo ones). The question of whether or not we should
implement package.keywords for the sake of private profiles should
be considered separately from the question of whether or not we
choose a policy to allow the use of package.keywords in one or more
of our official gentoo profiles.
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Thanks,
Zac
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