On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 12:31 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> maintaining arch things across multiple operating systems is boring me so i'd 
> like to start moving to profiles that outline arch-specific details
> 
> for example:
> default-linux/parent:
> 	../base
> default-linux/sh/parent:
> 	..
> 	../../arch/sh
> arch/sh/parent:
> 	..
> arch/parent -> none
> 
> all of the arch-specific details would be moved out of base/ and into arch/ 
> (like altivec, sse, sse2, mmx, etc...) and then they can be unmasked in the 
> respective arch/$arch/ subdir
> 
> this would be for 2007.1+ profiles and we can leave the old things in place 
> until we phase out 2007.0 and older completely

This is actually something I was already planning on working on setting
up.  To avoid conflicting with the current profiles, I was planning on
making a new profile tree.  I wasn't planning on using it for 2007.1's
official media, though, but rather just /experimental stuff, since I'd
rather get much more testing on it before it goes "live" as the default.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation