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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:58:15
Message-Id: 20050830215649.240a3bc5@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles by Olivier Crete
1 On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:45:24 -0400 Olivier Crete <tester@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | And I dont think the QA is worst on x86.. Most herd devs are on x86
4 | and its their responsability to do their QA.
5
6 QA needs coordination. Otherwise we end up with repeats of the "Gnome
7 not building on stable x86 for several weeks at a time because the
8 Gnome and Mozilla herds don't talk to each other" fiasco.
9
10 | And x86 has many more packages that any other architecture.
11
12 Careful with that... The difference is not so big as you might think,
13 and when you consider how many people own, say, sparc and compare it
14 with how many own x86, you might be surprised...
15
16 --
17 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
18 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
19 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles Olivier Crete <tester@g.o>