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On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:28:10PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > Which kind of support are you speaking of? As for installation media, |
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> > i really don't care. I fully agree <i686 is dying out and if the |
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> > release media is built built for i686 only i have no problem with that |
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> > either. If you really want to put Gentoo on a i586 there are a other |
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> > ways to do it, too, but i don't think we should stop supporting i586 |
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> > in general. |
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> Nobody has said that. So long as glibc/gcc/etc still work on i586, |
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> we'll still provide the ability to use it on those machines. That |
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> doesn't mean we'll "support" it. It's like GCC 2.x, which is still in |
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> the tree. It's there. It's usable. It's totally unsupported. |
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That's exactly what i can perfectly live with (i do even have a real |
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i586 box that's not a pentium 2 ;-) ), thanks for clearing it up. |
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cheers, |
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Wernfried |
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