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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: amd64 Keywords
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 02:19:20
Message-Id: 20050401031800.569c4754@snowdrop
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: amd64 Keywords by Jason Huebel
1 On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:05:44 -0600 Jason Huebel <jhuebel@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | On Thursday 31 March 2005 7:55 pm, Jason Huebel wrote:
4 | > Now, If ciaranm is offering to make the massive changes required for
5 | > this then maybe. Otherwise, it isn't happening anytime soon.
6 |
7 | I recend the offer for ciaranm to do the changes if he feels like it.
8 | That was, if you didn't catch it, sarcasm. But I'm not very good at
9 | sarcasm. :-)
10 |
11 | We've added the aforementioned note to our documentation explaining
12 | why amd64 is the chosen keyword for the x86-64 arch.
13
14 Hrm, I think the wording maybe isn't clear enough. What is proposed is
15 that amd64 uses the x86 keyword. I've attached a revised version with
16 that clarified -- I guess not everyone's aware of the specifics of the
17 sparc merge so I made the purpose more explicit.
18
19 --
20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
21 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
22 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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