On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 17:46 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
> Or use "abi" instead of "personality", if nothing else it's
shorter to
> type and covers the same idea.
>
> What the spec etc syntax for that would be I dunno, maybe just
> "Requires: foo%{_abi}" which would expand to foo(<abi name>), eg
> foo(ppc32). Or something like that.
>
> Does that make sense to others, or am I just out to luch as usual? ;)
Well I like personality because it does match other things that are
trying to express the same thing.
I don't like abi because we're already using that for things like
python(abi) to express a certain level of ABI from an application stack
rather than a CPU.
Agreed, "abi" is bad, it's much too overloaded with different meanings in
several domains. I'm not hung about "personality" either, but at least
it's a good example of the kind of term I'm shopping for.
- Panu -