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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide
From: Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org>
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On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 12:48 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:52:14 +0200 "Kevin F. Quinn"
> <kevquinn@gentoo.org> wrote:
> | Minority arches don't affect devs who aren't interested in them
> 
> Actually, they do. Minority archs lead to much better tree QA being
> done, more bugs in packages being identified and more ebuild and
> package bugs being fixed.

You see this is the problem with being perceived as a "minority"
architecture.  And it's something that gets completely overlooked --
before we had a QA team, the "minority" architectures served a similar
purpose.  Countless packages have had build-system fixes, compile fixes,
runtime fixes all *because* we had ppc, sparc, mips and others (ppc and
sparc being the more major of them, in terms of long-term impact to
Gentoo).  IOW, +1 on Ciaran's statement.

I think it's perfectly fine to think about pruning/thinning out Gentoo
to its core, but first we have to actually decide what its core actually
is.  Hint: majority architectures are *not*.  Gentoo, at heart, is a
meta-distribution, and all that that implies.

Thanks,
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Seemant Kulleen
Developer, Gentoo Linux

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