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On Thursday 01 September 2005 19:10, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Now that we have a new council that (I hope) will be active in approving |
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> or rejecting GLEPs, perhaps someone should be writing a GLEP about |
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> combining x86 and amd64? |
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I hope this not. As (iirc) I already said, it's impossible to combine x86 with |
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anything else that's not 100% source and binary compatible with itself... |
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The reason is actually simple: x86 is, or at least was, the reference |
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architecture for almost all programmers. |
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There are too many packages that works *just* on x86, both at source and |
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binary level. |
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Using a single keyword would make us unable to mark for example helixplayer |
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(source) x86 and -amd64 at the same time (as it's now). |
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While it can be simple to do for sparc or ppc that has relatively less users, |
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and with no need for binary compatibility for -bin packages, it's probably |
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going to be a *great* pain for both users AND developers of x86 and amd64 |
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platforms (most probably for the latter, as x86 has basically no needs for |
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multilib and so on). |
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Please don't do that. |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò |
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Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ |
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(Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM) |
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