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Am Donnerstag 29 August 2013, 20:33:01 schrieb Tom Wijsman: |
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> Then we have the major arches ppc, amd64, x86, arm; yup, seems right. |
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> The difference between ppc, amd64 and x86 seems quite small even. |
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As the voice from history... this is the case mainly since Ago joined PPC. |
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Before that, PPC was known to be lagging badly. (My impression, no hard data |
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to back it up.) |
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> Vote 1: Do we drop stable keywords for m68k, sh and s390? |
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> Rationality: These fall under the original reasoning of this thread. |
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> Vote 2: Do we drop stable keywords for alpha, ia64, ppc64 and sparc? |
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> Rationality: Do we (as Gentoo) want to focus on more major arches in a |
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> way that we don't have minor arches block them? What do we want to |
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> pursue? Broader support? Or rather making just the major arches perfect? |
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Whenever this is discussed, we should probably take two things into account: |
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1) Is an arch "waxing or waning", meaning is the hardware still produced, and |
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is the market share growing, stable, or deteriorating? |
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2) Is the hardware decently fast for compiling? I.e. are users likely to be |
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interested in running Gentoo? (If I need a week to rebuild gcc...) |
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Cheers, A |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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kde, sci, arm, tex, printing |
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