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From: David Seifert <soap@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Mass last-riting of x86-but-not-amd64 packages
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 09:46:15
Message-Id: bd5e271a39df2dd9d91ed81f833820f5a8c9337f.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Mass last-riting of x86-but-not-amd64 packages by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 22:20 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 13:14 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
3 > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 1:04 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
4 > > wrote:
5 > > > sys-fs/hfsplusutils
6 > >
7 > > Your script should probably check for other keywords as well. This
8 > > package is almost entirely for use on ppc/ppc64 machines. For
9 > > whatever
10 > > reason it has an x86 keyword as well, so the lack of an amd64
11 > > keyword
12 > > doesn't indicate that it should be removed.
13 > >
14 >
15 > I've already removed it from the list, along with other packages that
16 > have revdeps.
17 >
18 > However, I don't think that's a really good argument. Many ancient
19 > packages have x86 and ppc keywords which doesn't make them any less
20 > dead.
21 >
22
23 Fedora seems to be building it fine on amd64. I will take over
24 maintenance of that package.