From: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving more architectures to ~arch only
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 01:54:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F7FBDF33-72B9-413C-A842-E1F04A2D3526@gentoo.org> (raw)
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> On 18 Oct 2021, at 01:50, Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
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>
>
>> On 14 Oct 2021, at 14:40, Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear everyone,
>>
>> Following some private discussions, I feel quite strongly now that it would both considerably improve certain processes and make our use of limited manpower more efficient were we to further reduce the number of stable arches in Gentoo Linux. Specifically, I propose to drop
>> - hppa,
>> - ppc,
>> - sparc,
>> - x86
>> to ~arch-only status.
>
> [snip]
>
> My suggested actions:
>
> [snip]
>
> - We drop any large suites of packages at least to ~arch where they're problematic. A good place
> to start would probably be scientific stuff which isn't a test dependency (or likely to become one)
> in future of e.g. the Python stack. There's quite a few niche sci applications stable on e.g. x86
> which probably don't have a need to be.
>
One more while it's in my head:
- Try break the assumption in developers' heads (mine too!) that we should stable
x86 while we're stabling amd64 and so on, if it's not already stable there. Try
reduce growing the x86 stable base unless somebody wants it.
>> [snip]
>
> best,
> sam
>
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-14 13:40 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving more architectures to ~arch only Marek Szuba
2021-10-14 16:08 ` Roy Bamford
2021-10-14 17:10 ` Michał Górny
2021-10-15 6:54 ` Joonas Niilola
2021-10-15 7:20 ` Agostino Sarubbo
2021-10-15 11:59 ` Mikhail Koliada
2021-10-15 21:40 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2021-10-16 6:17 ` Michał Górny
2021-11-04 18:56 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2021-10-16 21:14 ` William Hubbs
2021-10-18 0:25 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-10-18 1:08 ` John Helmert III
2021-10-18 15:09 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-10-18 17:07 ` Michał Górny
2021-10-19 15:36 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-10-18 17:32 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2021-11-04 18:08 ` Marek Szuba
2021-10-18 0:50 ` Sam James
2021-10-18 0:54 ` Sam James [this message]
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