Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:46:46 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"

<flameeyes@g.o> wrote:

| On Thursday 01 September 2005 20:32, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

| > Ideally they wouldn't be keyworded at all.

| I live in a real world, not an ideal one.

| 

| > More users means more QA feedback. This means x86/amd64 will have an

| > *easier* job.

| SNR, this unknown value that's so much important in communications...

| this is when I like the school I did.



So your argument is that our users are clueless morons?



| > And, uh, there are people out there shipping binaries for 

| > sparc and mips.

| http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=mozilla-bin

| http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=openoffice-bin

| http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=realplayer

| http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=acroread

| http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=netscape-flash

| 

| Want some others?



Explain to me how this cannot be solved via the profile arch system

plus use_expand.



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