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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 19:01:19
Message-Id: 56bf6bd4-fddf-b9df-18fb-39ece33e4521@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp by William Hubbs
1 On 5/10/17 11:08 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:04:54AM +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
3 >> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> wrote:
4 >>> I maintain quite a few ppc stage3's for uclibc and musl. I would
5 >>> appreciate keeping ppc as is. It is still a useful arch for many
6 >>> devices today, eg. some high end Mikrotik routers.
7 >>
8 >> So are you willing to do the work? There are currently 68 open keyword
9 >> requests (oldest one reported in 2011) and 48 open stable requests
10 >> (oldest one reported in November).
11 >
12 > +1000
13 >
14 > If we are going to keep ppc as a stable profile, someone needs to do the
15 > keywording and stabilization for it.
16 >
17 > William
18 >
19
20 the current plan by Soap et al is to drop all keywords except for
21 @system and leave the profiles stable. this works for me and addresses
22 your concern.
23
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25 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
26 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
27 E-Mail : blueness@g.o
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>