On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 10:15:22AM +0200, foser wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 12:33 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > you'd > > know that scattered KEYWORDS is a pita to deal with ... i've seen cases > > where > > a specific arch was duplicated in KEYWORDS; once near the beginning and > > once > > near the end ... normally it wasnt anything bad, but there was a case where > > one KEYWORD was stable while the other was unstable > > Again something I'd only expect to happen in cases where someone is > reordering keywords at will inside a package. > > A certain amount of uncertainty in order actually might prove to be > effective in having everyone who deals with keywords actually really > check all keywords and not depend on assumptions, which both 'error' > cases you mention seem to be caused by. > Sorry foser but there's just no way that making it *harder* to find keywords in ebuilds is going to cause less mistakes. Alphabetical keyword ordering is a big help for arch maintainers and as such has my full support.
And in those cases where I'm in doubt whether the package maintainer thinks some version is stable I'd rather ask the maintainer than rely on some arbitrary keyword ordering which doesn't mean much anyway as maintainers change archs all the time. Regards, Bryan Østergaard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
