From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EADp1-000088-OO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:39:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7ULaLHb005166; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:36:21 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7ULYbKs030376 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:34:37 GMT Received: from [82.155.49.147] (helo=[82.155.49.147]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EADmg-00034U-Pe for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:36:47 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] crap use flags in the profiles From: Luis Medinas To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1125434724.3539.42.camel@cocagne.max-t.internal> References: <20050825000442.GC1701@nightcrawler> <431036EA.8050401@gentoo.org> <20050827100130.GX1701@nightcrawler> <1125334595.1964.107.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20050829203259.GA13987@nightcrawler> <1125351816.1964.148.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20050829231247.104e9ff8@snowdrop.home> <1125404657.1964.167.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <4314715E.5000809@gentoo.org> <4314BA18.8040009@egr.msu.edu> <1125436518.15621.54.camel@darksystem> <20050830214002.1ce72cc2@localhost> <1125434724.3539.42.camel@cocagne.max-t.internal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:34:21 +0000 Message-Id: <1125441261.15621.61.camel@darksystem> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7ULYbKs030376 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j7ULaLJ9005166 X-Archives-Salt: c54fd20f-b80f-4f97-aa98-b46212146456 X-Archives-Hash: d3bd8362919bb520cf4352bf3059d242 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 wrote: > >=20 > > > 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 th= e > > > tree that needs to be patched to work on AMD64 so we cannot cover > > > AMD64/x86 under the same keyword.=20 > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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.=20 >=20 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.=20 >=20 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 ? >=20 I agree too we need an x86 team. Any Senior Developer wants to take this position ? > --=20 > Olivier Cr=EAte > tester@gentoo.org > Gentoo Developer > x86 Security Liaison >=20 >=20 --=20 Luis Medinas http://dev.gentoo.org/~metalgod Gentoo Linux Developer: AMD64,Printing,app-cdr --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list