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Dear everyone, |
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Following some private discussions, I feel quite strongly now that it |
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would both considerably improve certain processes and make our use of |
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limited manpower more efficient were we to further reduce the number of |
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stable arches in Gentoo Linux. Specifically, I propose to drop |
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- hppa, |
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- ppc, |
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- sparc, |
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- x86 |
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to ~arch-only status. |
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Note that this does NOT mean we intend to drop support for those arches |
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altogether. |
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There are IMHO several good reasons for this: |
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- most of the arches from this list are quite dated and either aren't |
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really developed upstream any more or got superseded by newer ones (for |
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the record, it's been 18 years since the first amd64 CPUs came out) |
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- we have got very few people actually supporting these arches, and in |
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case of hppa there is also the hardware bottleneck. Subsequently, |
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stabilisation requests often take a long time to resolve |
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- feedback we receive, e.g. by Bugzilla, suggests that Gentoo on at |
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least some of these arches have got very, very few users |
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- last but by no means least, my personal experience from the last |
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several years suggests that running ~arch is reasonably trouble-free |
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these days |
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WDYT? |
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-- |
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Marecki |