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On 12/22/14 23:55, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> All, |
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> this discussion got side-tracked into gcc, which was not my intent; |
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> let's go back to my specific question about glibc. |
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> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:22:41PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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>>> some of such software is |
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>>> binary, some other is too large to be updated regularly. |
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>> Please give REASONS why things should remain maintained. So far (except for |
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>> the gcc-3/hardened explanations, and for gcc-3 doing more fortran than |
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>> gcc-4(??)) this is mostly mumbo-jumbo about "someone might need it", |
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>> proprietary binary blobs (should we even care? if yes, why?) and similar. |
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> I vote that we shouldn't care about proprietary binary blobs. |
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Oh dear god this is going from bad to worse. I love blobs as much as |
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the next person but there are people that need this stuff if gentoo is |
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to be useful for them. Let's not care about blobs and shut down |
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linx.net where Tony Vroon (Chainsaw) uses gentoo and runs broadcom II |
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which need blobs. |
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