Quoting Neil Williams (2014-12-11 21:07:15) > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 19:36:19 +0100 > Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> wrote: >> On 11.12.2014 19:08, Leif Lindholm wrote: >> >>> If we could transition this to be able to specify efi-all (or >>> whatever) instead of an explicit list of certain architectures, this >>> would be a lot more straightforward operation. >> >>> Would this be useful, desirable, an accident waiting to happen? >> >> Useful, possibly, but there is no mechanism that could be used or >> recycled for that, so it would be an entirely new mechanism in the >> package management framework, with a fairly limited use case. > > There is an accepted mechanism: linux-any is a group of architectures > which have one set of packages in common and we have had others. > efi-any would seem to be entirely possible without implementing > something completely new. It would need dpkg and buildd support. With > linux-any it relies on a list of architectures in a table in dpkg - > the same could be done for other groups. Elegant! > The mechanisms exist, the question is how many other variants would be > created by adopting this? Please ignore my use cases - they were about features enabled/disabled rather than architectures targeted at all, which is what Leif asks for. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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