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 1EAuN9-00059V-77 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:05:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81J1CVF015573; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:01:12 GMT Received: from ctb-mesg9.saix.net (ctb-mesg9.saix.net [196.25.240.89]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81Iw2Hw018693 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:58:05 GMT Received: from gateway.lan (wblv-146-249-139.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.249.139]) by ctb-mesg9.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84BAE29E5 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:57:45 +0200 (SAST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB713A2482 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:34:02 +0200 (SAST) Received: from gateway.lan ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gateway.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24451-06 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:33:57 +0200 (SAST) Received: from lycan.lan (lycan.lan [192.168.0.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE643A241D for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:33:57 +0200 (SAST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 From: Martin Schlemmer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20050901194212.45ae2570@snowdrop.home> References: <20050901171028.GW18440@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> <200509011923.58239@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20050901184101.5ed8cadc@snowdrop.home> <200509011950.24494@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20050901190259.31d68edd@snowdrop.home> <1125599804.15722.18.camel@cocagne.max-t.internal> <20050901194212.45ae2570@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-+S2vEj0Cf6lZ2g4g8Nh3" Organization: Gentoo Foundation Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:00:39 +0200 Message-Id: <1125601240.11345.19.camel@lycan.lan> 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 2.3.8 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at nosferatu.za.org X-Archives-Salt: 4e556b36-c70c-478a-892e-74de69e5329b X-Archives-Hash: 53746f5afc03944a9e29af2b82f6444f --=-+S2vEj0Cf6lZ2g4g8Nh3 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 19:42 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:36:44 -0400 Olivier Crete > wrote: > | Is it just me, it seems that only sparc/mips devs want that kind of > | change and non none of the x86/amd64 devs...=20 >=20 > The people who have worked with such a system before and understand how > it works and what all it can do want change. Those who don't understand > the system and think that it has all kinds of problems that are really > just a lack of understanding don't want it to change. >=20 Maybe, but please give one example of such an 'explanation' that any of the pro-merge devs have given. > | I still dont see what practical advantage that would bring to > | x86/amd64 users or developers?=20 >=20 > QA. Possible, but once again, why will a merge give 'better' QA ? --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-+S2vEj0Cf6lZ2g4g8Nh3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDF0/XqburzKaJYLYRAln5AJ4zoAsUNBLwo2M71legO2+JCjLjhgCeOMrK yNLyRo6ysm09CzjlFbue3M8= =zqaG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-+S2vEj0Cf6lZ2g4g8Nh3-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list