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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remove "dev"-status of mips profiles
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:23:06
Message-Id: 20100211212249.GF20770@hrair
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remove "dev"-status of mips profiles by Christian Faulhammer
1 On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:12:44PM +0100, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>:
5 > > I would guess that it would be far easier to work in an overlay at
6 > > this point. I would also guess that if there are ANY mips users out
7 > > there that they would have to use some other ACCEPT_KEYWORDS value
8 > > because the shape of ~mips is so...bad.
9 >
10 > Don't remove an architecture. Ask vapier what it means to reintroduce
11 > it. Even if it rots, mark it as unmaintained and wait for someone to
12 > pick-up.
13
14 I question if this will hold true when gentoo-x86 goes git; at the
15 very least folding an arch back into mainline should be a helluva lot
16 easier.
17
18 Anyone got any comments on similar attempts?
19 ~harring