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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Title:</th><td class="field-body">New "keyword" system to incorporate various userlands/kernels/archs</td> |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Version:</th><td class="field-body">1.8</td> |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Last-Modified:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference" href="http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/glep/glep-0022.txt?cvsroot=gentoo">2005/01/09 16:12:40</a></td> |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Grant Goodyear <g2boojum at gentoo.org></td> |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Status:</th><td class="field-body">Final</td> |
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Post-History:</th><td class="field-body">6-Mar-2004, 5-Jun-2004, 20-Jul-2004</td> |
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keyword explosion, but merely tries to make it manageable.</p> |
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<p>This version was approved on 14-Jun-2004, with the amendment that cascading |
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<p>This GLEP originated from the concerns that Daniel Robbins had with the |
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make the GLEP much more reasonable.</p> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id16" id="abstract" name="abstract">Abstract</a></h1> |
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<p>As Gentoo branches out to support non-Linux and non-GNU systems (such as Hurd, |
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flexibility to include systems other than GNU/Linux. For example, the author |
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of this GLEP has been working to create a <a class="reference" href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/bsd/index.xml">version</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id8" id="id9" name="id9">[3]</a> of Gentoo that uses |
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<a class="reference" href="http://www.openbsd.com">OpenBSD</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id5" id="id6" name="id6">[2]</a> as the underlying kernel, userland, and libc. <a class="reference" href="http://www.openbsd.com">OpenBSD</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id5" id="id7" name="id7">[2]</a> supports a |
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variety of different architectures, so, in principle, we would need a new |
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<em>openbsd-arch</em> keyword for each supported architecture. In fact, the |
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situation is even more complicated, because the <a class="reference" href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/index.xml">Gentoo-Alt</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id2" id="id4" name="id4">[1]</a> project would |
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eventually like to support the option of "mixing-and-matching" |
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GNU/*BSD/whatever userlands and libcs irrespective of the underlying kernel. |
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(<a class="reference" href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id10" id="id11" name="id11">[4]</a>, for example has a similar BSD <a class="reference" href="http://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/">project</a> <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id12" id="id13" name="id13">[5]</a>, except that they have |
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replaced the BSD userland with a GNU userland.) The net result is that we |
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need keywords that can specify all possible permutations of arch, |
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userland, kernel and libc. A systematic nomenclature is needed. |
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Fortunately, the author is a Chemist. <em>Grin</em></p> |
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id19" id="keyword-fragments" name="keyword-fragments">Keyword Fragments</a></h2> |
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<p>Each keyword needs to specify, either explicitly or |
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implicitly, the following parameters: ARCH, USERLAND, LIBC, and KERNEL.</p> |
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<dt>KERNEL:</dt> |
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<dt>USERLAND:</dt> |
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<dd>gnu, bsd</dd> |
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<dt>LIBC:</dt> |
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<p>(The above examples are not meant to be complete. Hurd, for example |
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<p>A fully-specified keyword would look like |
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"ARCH-KERNEL-USERLAND-LIBC", so, for example, |
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"ppc-fbsd-gnu-glibc" would indicate a Gentoo system corresponding to |
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a ppc architecture running the FreeBSD kernel with a GNU userland and glibc |
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as the system C library.</p> |
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id20" id="reasonable-defaults" name="reasonable-defaults">Reasonable Defaults</a></h2> |
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<p>To keep this system manageable (and both to reduce typing and maintain |
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backwards compatibility), we need sensible defaults. For backwards |
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compatibility, the Gentoo default is a Linux kernel with a GNU userland |
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and glibc C library. Thus, the current crop of ARCH-based keywords |
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(x86, ppc, etcetera) require no change whatsoever. For the *BSD-based |
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systems the default USERLAND and LIBC would be those normally associated |
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with the corresponding KERNEL, so "x86-obsd" describes an x86 system |
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entire four-parameter string must be used.</p> |
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<p>One issue that has been raised is that adding a large number of keywords |
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list of keywords could grow to be the lengthiest part of the ebuild.) |
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Nothing in this GLEP would be incompatible with such an approach, so |
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any further discussion will be deferred to a possible future GLEP on |
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<p>Along with an explosion of keywords comes a concomitant explosion of potential |
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profiles. Just as in the current system, the profile name would be |
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significant problem. In fact, one could reasonably argue that the current |
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number of profiles is already too many to be easily maintained. One proposal |
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<p>The proposed new "keywording" system is far from elegant, which is |
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a substantial drawback. On the other hand, it is simple, it requires |
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<p>Since the new keyword system is backwards-compatible with the current |
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as new systems are supported.</p> |
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<p>Backwards compatibility has already been addressed in some detail, |
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ebuilds working exactly as they are now.</p> |
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id13" name="id12">[5]</a></td><td><a class="reference" href="http://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/">http://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/</a></td></tr> |
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id27" id="copyright" name="copyright">Copyright</a></h1> |
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