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On 1/9/2005 20:54:14, Stephen P. Becker (geoman@g.o) wrote: |
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> > Is it just me, it seems that only sparc/mips devs want that kind of |
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> > change and non none of the x86/amd64 devs... |
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> > I still dont see what practical advantage that would bring to x86/amd64 |
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> > users or developers? |
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> If you haven't figured out the reason we are pushing for this sort of |
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> thing yet, it is because x86 is unsupported in Gentoo (if you consider |
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> what all the other arches have to do to be "supported"). As a result, |
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> it causes the quality of the portage tree to suffer. Time and time |
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> again, it has been brought up that x86 should have an arch team, yet |
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> nobody ever acts on it. Well, merging the "two" arches will help solve |
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> this problem. |
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Surely ths solution to that problem is to set up an x86 arch team, not to put such big a millstone around the neck of the amd64 team. |
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