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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 will |
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> 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), wasn't working |
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on sparc64 (sigbus) until 1.1.0... all the versions are marked ~sparc .. |
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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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The *users* are the imporant part... mips and sparc are WAY far from the |
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quantity of users of amd64 and x86... and the LEVEL of the users themselves, |
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too! |
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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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