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From: Mikhail Koliada <zlogene@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving more architectures to ~arch only
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:00:00
Message-Id: 9a81defa-a1a6-b3dd-a311-c7fd55de79c1@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving more architectures to ~arch only by Marek Szuba
1 On 14.10.2021 16:40, Marek Szuba wrote:
2 > Dear everyone,
3 >
4 > Following some private discussions, I feel quite strongly now that it
5 > would both considerably improve certain processes and make our use of
6 > limited manpower more efficient were we to further reduce the number
7 > of stable arches in Gentoo Linux. Specifically, I propose to drop
8 >  - hppa,
9 >  - ppc,
10 >  - sparc,
11 >  - x86
12 > to ~arch-only status.
13 >
14 > [..]
15 >
16 > WDYT?
17 >
18
19 There arches are mostly exotic these days, so marking them unstable is
20 only going to reflect it more (which is right, respective arch teams
21 might still support the stable profiles to make sure we are fine with
22 the deptree),