On 09/16/2011 10:48 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:55 -0400 > Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >>> PS why not merge all x86 abis into one keyword? because x86_32 >>> x86_64 x86_x32 are only abis of x86. Also we dont have different >>> keywords for different mips abis (64bit and 32bit ones) >> that'd be nice :) > Seems even acceptable. Not sane but acceptable. People tend to keyword > packages both '~amd64 ~x86' testing them on amd64 only; amd64 users > tend to get sad when someone keyworded a package '~x86' only. > > On the other hand, it'd be good to have ABI sub-keywords then. > Something like 'x86:x86 -*' if a package is actually x86-only. > I guess there are only a few cases where a package should be keyworded for eg x86, but not for amd64, so these few cases can be handled by p.masks, right?
So, we can have a single x86 keyword, and a single x86 'parent' profile, and subprofiles for x86(or x86_32), amd64, and x32. I guess it's not that simple, but I think that's how the mips profiles work? -- Stratos Psomadakis <pso...@gentoo.org>
