On 5 September 2011 02:24, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > Whilst spelunking through ebuild files I notice that in addition to > the usual ~amd64 and ~x86 keywords, I also see ~amd64-linux and > ~x86-linux. What is the significance of this? > > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> > >
As far as I am aware, Gentoo now supports something called prefix installations where you can use portage on top of (at least some of) the BSD's and Solaris and some old-school Unixes and other operating systems that aren't linux, the ~x86-linux keywords are to just signify that it's only being stabilised for linux, not any of the other operating systems. I could be wrong though.
