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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keyword amd64 -> x86_64
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:24:44
Message-Id: 20080220192326.1d332d92.genone@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Keyword amd64 -> x86_64 by "William L. Thomson Jr."
1 On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:59:11 -0500
2 "William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Please excuse my ignorance if this is a naive comment or has been
5 > brought up before. With all the non amd processors now with 64bit
6 > support. amd64 as a keyword seems a bit odd and off maybe.
7 >
8 > What's the possibility of switching amd64 to x86_64?
9 >
10 > Unless the work to do that is greater than the value of the change.
11
12 As the benefit is close to nothing IMO the required work is definitely
13 greater by several orders of magnitude.
14
15 Marius
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Keyword amd64 -> x86_64 Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>