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From: David Seifert <soap@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 19:29:27
Message-Id: 1494444548.1333.12.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp by Mart Raudsepp
1 On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 22:24 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
2 > Ühel kenal päeval, K, 10.05.2017 kell 15:01, kirjutas Anthony G.
3 > Basile:
4 > > On 5/10/17 11:08 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
5 > > > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:04:54AM +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
6 > > > > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gen
7 > > > > to
8 > > > > o.org> wrote:
9 > > > > > I maintain quite a few ppc stage3's for uclibc and musl.  I
10 > > > > > would
11 > > > > > appreciate keeping ppc as is.  It is still a useful arch for
12 > > > > > many
13 > > > > > devices today, eg. some high end Mikrotik routers.
14 > > > >
15 > > > > So are you willing to do the work? There are currently 68 open
16 > > > > keyword
17 > > > > requests (oldest one reported in 2011) and 48 open stable
18 > > > > requests
19 > > > > (oldest one reported in November).
20 > > >
21 > > > +1000
22 > > >
23 > > > If we are going to keep ppc as a stable profile, someone needs to
24 > > > do the
25 > > > keywording and stabilization for it.
26 > > >
27 > > > William
28 > > >
29 > >
30 > > the current plan by Soap et al is to drop all keywords except for
31 > > @system and leave the profiles stable.  this works for me and
32 > > addresses
33 > > your concern.
34 >
35 > Are we talking about dropping all keywords besides @system things
36 > from
37 > ppc to ~ppc or completely?
38 > I guess the latter as the former doesn't solve keywording lag?
39 >
40 >
41 > Mart
42 >
43
44 The latter, as that is the only way to restore sanity. I will be
45 preparing a list.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>