On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > As you said, however, it's a choice of the maintainer. Things like Perl > and Python may be less prone to this issue since they're meant to be > portable. >
The concept is that the maintainer will only use this when this is the case. The goal is to cut down on stabilization burden esp for minor arches on stuff that should be arch independent. I don't think we formalized a ton of rules - maintainers should know when it is safe to use. -- Rich
