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From: Andrew Cowie <andrew@×××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 -> x86_64
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:16:12
Message-Id: 1203571637.4677.1.camel@moonglow.roaming.operationaldynamics.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 -> x86_64 by Ryan Hill
1 On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 19:42 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote:
2 > But I agree, rekeywording amd64 to x86_64 would probably be more work than it's
3 > worth.
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5 Can we not just hardwire an alias into the emerge codebase?
6
7 I must admit, from a purely optical standpoint, the idea of saying my
8 system is "amd64" when it is nothing of the sort really grates. If,
9 internally, it just translated "x86_64" to "amd64" wouldn't that be ok?
10
11 AfC
12 Sydney
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 -> x86_64 "Olivier Crête" <tester@g.o>