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Stephen Bennett posted <20050830214002.1ce72cc2@localhost>, excerpted |
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below, on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:40:02 +0100: |
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> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:15:18 +0000 |
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> Luis Medinas <metalgod@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I belive the worse QA is in x86 and not in AMD64 and MIPS. Between |
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>> AMD64 and x86 there's a lot of differences i.e. many packages in the |
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>> tree that needs to be patched to work on AMD64 so we cannot cover |
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>> AMD64/x86 under the same keyword. |
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> There are packages that will work on (for example) little-endian mips |
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> but won't work or will need patching to work on big-endian, yet we |
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> still cover both of those with one keyword. |
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OK, I've seen this mentioned several times, but never with an explanation |
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of how to do it, without either causing issues for the one segment, or |
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holding up keywording perfectly working packages on another segment. |
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Perhaps it can be done, please explain how if so. |
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No offense intended, but as a user, I /like/ to actually know that a |
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package keyworded for my arch (segment) is known to work on it in full |
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(IMHO) uncrippled amd64 form, not in some (IMHO) "crippled 32-bit special |
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case". If we went the other way and removed x86 keywording from everything |
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that failed in 64-bit mode, including all 32-bit only codecs and the like, |
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x86(32) arch(segment) folks would rightly be wailing in protest. |
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Again, no offense intended, but unless you have some magic way to fix that |
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situation, perhaps the MIPS devs and users are willing to live with that |
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problem on MIPS, but neither x86(32) users nor amd64 users (and by this |
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I'm including devs, which are obviously users as well) are interested in |
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being saddled with an unnecessary problem, when the current situation |
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avoids it, or I expect the amd64 keyword would have never been added. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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