On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 03:29:53PM +0100, Klaus Heinz wrote:
> 
> I have grown used to the (bad ?) habit of looking for ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM
> to judge whether a package is meant for a specific platform and you
> seem to to change this meaning of the variable. Before, it meant to me

The real problem in the case of Linux emulation is, that it is a
combination of platform ability and package support. Whether the platform
support Linux or not (Makefile.application part) isn't really a feature
of the package. The package affects mostly the platform list. If there's
a specific OS / platform combination known to not work for a package, it
can still be masked with NOT_FOR_PLATFORM.

I think this patch helps us to clean this up and move the bigger part of
the selection into a few common places. I've found one instance where I
broke something (suse91_aspell, due to include reording), I'm looking
for more cases. Otherwise this is supposed to not break any working
packages, but it can unmask some combinations which are not (yet?)
supported.

Joerg