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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: How to handle x86/amd64 only packages on other arches
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:10:36
Message-Id: pan.2012.01.26.04.09.12@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] How to handle x86/amd64 only packages on other arches by Xavier Miller
1 Xavier Miller posted on Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:19:03 +0100 as excerpted:
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3 > Doubling the timeout seems to work (no error so far, the SHDHC card is
4 > fully useable).
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6 > Quoting Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o>:
7 >
8 >> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:30:26 +0100 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
9 >> <chithanh@g.o> wrote:
10 >>
11 >>> Doug Goldstein schrieb:
12 >>> > I need to be able to have ppc/arm/etc users install a package that
13 >>> > can only be built on x86/amd64.
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15 >>> Possibly a USE flag could be added to seabios/vgabios,
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17 >> It's the simplest thing to maintain. It eases binary package creation
18 >> and does not need any blockers, virtuals or conditional depends.
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20 You know, if you replied in context instead of "upside down" (reply above
21 quote, quote appended verbatim), you'd have probably noticed that you
22 were replying to the wrong post on the wrong list!
23
24 Just sayin...
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26 --
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28 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
29 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman