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On Tue, 2005-30-08 at 21:40 +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote: |
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> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:15:18 +0000 |
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> Luis Medinas <metalgod@g.o> wrote: |
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> > I belive the worse QA is in x86 and not in AMD64 and MIPS. Between |
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> > AMD64 and x86 there's a lot of differences i.e. many packages in the |
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> > tree that needs to be patched to work on AMD64 so we cannot cover |
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> > AMD64/x86 under the same keyword. |
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> There are packages that will work on (for example) little-endian mips |
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> but won't work or will need patching to work on big-endian, yet we |
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> still cover both of those with one keyword. |
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You are comparing apples and oranges.. Most of the herd devs only have |
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x86 and are not able to test amd64. That's the main difference. |
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And I dont think the QA is worst on x86.. Most herd devs are on x86 and |
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its their responsability to do their QA. I've seen many horrible ebuilds |
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done by ppc people too. And x86 has many more packages that any other |
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architecture. |
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Also, x86 is where most of the newbies are, we can't assume that if it |
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works on amd64 it will also work on x86.. Let me say it again: x86 is |
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still special.. its not a regular architecture. |
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That said, I agree, we need an x86 team. Maybe you want to lead it ? |
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Olivier Crête |
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tester@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer |
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x86 Security Liaison |
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