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On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 16:27 +1100, Andrew Cowie wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 19:42 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: |
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> > But I agree, rekeywording amd64 to x86_64 would probably be more work than it's |
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> > worth. |
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> Can we not just hardwire an alias into the emerge codebase? |
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> I must admit, from a purely optical standpoint, the idea of saying my |
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> system is "amd64" when it is nothing of the sort really grates. If, |
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> internally, it just translated "x86_64" to "amd64" wouldn't that be ok? |
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I really don't see the problem with AMD64, why it would be more wrong |
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than ia32 or x86 (based on Intel's product numbers!). AMD64 was invented |
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by AMD and they get to pick the name for it. The keyword amd64 in Gentoo |
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when Intel was still dismissing AMD64... |
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Olivier Crête |
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