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On 14.10.2021 20.10, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2021-10-14 at 15:40 +0200, Marek Szuba wrote: |
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>> Dear everyone, |
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>> Following some private discussions, I feel quite strongly now that it |
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>> would both considerably improve certain processes and make our use of |
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>> limited manpower more efficient were we to further reduce the number of |
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>> stable arches in Gentoo Linux. Specifically, I propose to drop |
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>> - hppa, |
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>> - ppc, |
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>> - sparc, |
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>> - x86 |
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>> to ~arch-only status. |
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Yes please. Still confused why people by default push KEYWORDS="~amd64 |
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~x86", but I guess they're the most compatible with each other. |
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> On one hand, I fully realize that these platforms are a hassle (hppa |
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> and x86 especially). On the other hand, I wouldn't want to basically go |
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> tell Dakon "sorry, you're doing a good job but we've arbitrarily decided |
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> it's not worth your effort". |
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Isn't this just strengthening the point; there's one guy behind all work ;) |
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> While we're discussing it, maybe we should start by defining a clear |
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> criteria for platform support tiers? Like: what are the requirements |
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> for a platform to maintain stable keywords? Then the decisions could |
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> look less arbitrary, and people would have a clear way of knowing what |
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> they need to do if they wish the platform to continue having stable |
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> keywords. |
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-- juippis |
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