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From: Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:01:43
Message-Id: 4314BA18.8040009@egr.msu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles by "Stephen P. Becker"
1 Stephen P. Becker wrote:
2
3 >>> Shouldn't this fall under the x86 arch team rather than releng? The
4 >>
5 >>
6 >>
7 >> I'm sorry, but *what* x86 arch team?
8 >
9 >
10 > That's the point. Ciaran is just pointing out for the gazillionth
11 > time that x86 is an unsupported arch, if you go by the standards the
12 > other arches have to follow to be part of Gentoo. When is this going
13 > to be fixed? Or, will it just be ignored until all the x86 folks get
14 > amd64 machines and x86 pretty much becomes irrelevant?
15 >
16 > Is this also a good time to note that the amd64 and x86 could *easily*
17 > be covered under the same keyword? We cover a large variety of mips
18 > machines/userlands under one keyword, with differences much more
19 > significant then that between x86 and amd64.
20 >
21 > -Steve
22
23 Any how many more x86 users are there than MIPS users to hit problems?
24 How much worse is the QA in the x86/amd64 tree than the MIPS tree? I'm
25 not trying to bash either team here, just pointing out the facts.
26
27 Alec Warner (antarus)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles Luis Medinas <metalgod@g.o>