Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles

[Luis Medinas <metalgod@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 16:45 -0400, Olivier Crete wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-30-08 at 21:40 +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:15:18 +0000
> > Luis Medinas <metalgod@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I belive the worse QA is in x86 and not in AMD64 and MIPS. Between
> > > AMD64 and x86 there's a lot of differences i.e. many packages in the
> > > tree that needs to be patched to work on AMD64 so we cannot cover
> > > AMD64/x86 under the same keyword. 
> > 
> > There are packages that will work on (for example) little-endian mips
> > but won't work or will need patching to work on big-endian, yet we
> > still cover both of those with one keyword.
> 
> You are comparing apples and oranges.. Most of the herd devs only have
> x86 and are not able to test amd64. That's the main difference. 
> 
Yes you are right but we still need to take special treat for all archs
not only for amd64 or x86. With AMD64 we have the resources to make a
good QA. With x86 only the maintainers can take care of they own QA.

> Also, x86 is where most of the newbies are, we can't assume that if it
> works on amd64 it will also work on x86.. Let me say it again: x86 is
> still special.. its not a regular architecture. 
> 
Sure every arch is special. But there are archs that needs more work
then others i.e. MIPS

> That said, I agree, we need an x86 team. Maybe you want to lead it ?
> 
I agree too we need an x86 team. Any Senior Developer wants to take this
position ?
> -- 
> Olivier Crête
> tester@gentoo.org
> Gentoo Developer
> x86 Security Liaison
> 
> 
-- 
Luis Medinas <metalgod@gentoo.org>
http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod
Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,app-cdr


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