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On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:11:09 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
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<flameeyes@g.o> wrote:
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| On Thursday 01 September 2005 20:02, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
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| > Take a look at how sparc and mips currently handle packages which
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| > will run on some CPU kinds or ABIs but not others.
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| xine-lib, was not compiling on sparc32 (as there's a bug open),
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| wasn't working on sparc64 (sigbus) until 1.1.0... all the versions
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| are marked ~sparc ..
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Ideally they wouldn't be keyworded at all.
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| Why I still looking for REASONING to your "Untrue" specifically about
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| | While it can be simple to do for sparc or ppc that has relatively
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| | less users, and with no need for binary compatibility for -bin
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| | packages,
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| just to start from?
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More users means more QA feedback. This means x86/amd64 will have an
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*easier* job. And, uh, there are people out there shipping binaries for
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sparc and mips.
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| The *users* are the imporant part... mips and sparc are WAY far from
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| the quantity of users of amd64 and x86... and the LEVEL of the users
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| themselves, too!
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Again, more users means more QA feedback. Other than that, the users
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won't see any difference except for the profile they use.
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--
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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