В Пнд, 25/08/2008 в 11:40 -0700, Zac Medico пишет: > Peter Volkov wrote: > > 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?
Yes. And by initially I meant overlays outside Gentoo tree and then this tool could be useful during merge with portage tree. > 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. Ok, then my answer is yes. With best regards, -- Peter.
