Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] subprofiles for ARM architecture

2011-08-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday, August 07, 2011 07:50:42 Raúl Porcel wrote: > The problem is that during the history of the ARM architecture(according > to the wikipedia, the architecture was introduced back in 1981) there > has been some subarchitectures(the most available are armv4, armv4t, > armv5t, armv6j and armv7

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] subprofiles for ARM architecture

2011-08-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday, August 13, 2011 01:41:54 Arun Raghavan wrote: > On 7 August 2011 17:20, Raúl Porcel wrote: > > With subprofiles we could keyword such packages, mask them globally on > > arm and unmask it on the subprofile of the subarchitecture that supports > > it. > > I think this makes sense. What

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] subprofiles for ARM architecture

2011-08-13 Thread Matt Turner
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 01:50:42PM +0200, Raúl Porcel wrote: >> With subprofiles we could keyword such packages, mask them globally on >> arm and unmask it on the subprofile of the subarchitecture that supports it. > I suggest you go and l

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] subprofiles for ARM architecture

2011-08-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 01:50:42PM +0200, Raúl Porcel wrote: > With subprofiles we could keyword such packages, mask them globally on > arm and unmask it on the subprofile of the subarchitecture that supports it. I suggest you go and look at the solution that was in place for MIPS subarches as well

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] subprofiles for ARM architecture

2011-08-12 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 7 August 2011 17:20, Raúl Porcel wrote: [...] > With subprofiles we could keyword such packages, mask them globally on > arm and unmask it on the subprofile of the subarchitecture that supports it. I think this makes sense. What would the policy be on initial keywords if upstream doesn't expli

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] subprofiles for ARM architecture

2011-08-07 Thread Raúl Porcel
Hi, The other day Markus(maekke) found an issue i encountered two years ago. An app supports only a subarchitecture of the ARM architecture. For those that don't know the ARM architecture, its an architecture which is mostly used on embedded and/or mobile devices(cell phones, mostly), also there'