On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:11:00 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Friday 10 February 2006 00:50, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Provision should be made for future ports that require more than two | > keywords. There's no particular reason to artificially limit this to | > two at this stage. | | There's a reason: simplicity. More than two part keywords simply are | difficult to read, handle and are proving themselves pointless. | We just need to identify an operating system (or a variant of it) not | a whole complex of dependencies.
Mmm. Do you consider the cost of slightly simplified wording in the GLEP now to be worth extra effort that may be required in the future by some especially whacked out port? I'd prefer to see at least a note in the GLEP stating that three part keywords are legal if they ever become necessary. | > Examples of how this lot is to be used in DEPEND= etc would be good | > for clarity. | | Hmm well they are already being used, anyway, the following comes | from rpm2targz: Yeah, *I* know how they work. I suspect that many people reading the GLEP, however, are going to go "Huh? Why do we need this lot at all?". | > You should clarify the env map behaviour when multiple matches all | > occur (first match, last match or merge?). | | Never thought about that actually, good point. I think last match | would be good. Then your example code is wrong :) -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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