From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JS4j6-0003W8-34 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:16:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B4A0E055E; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:16:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay03.pair.com (relay03.pair.com [209.68.5.17]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 076D6E055E for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:16:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 64492 invoked by uid 0); 21 Feb 2008 06:16:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.253.128?) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 21 Feb 2008 06:16:08 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 150.101.122.233 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 -> x86_64 From: Andrew Cowie To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <1203530351.26229.17.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com> <20080220215530.5688b989@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Operational Dynamics Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:27:17 +1100 Message-Id: <1203571637.4677.1.camel@moonglow.roaming.operationaldynamics.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c31a7824-cd8c-4301-b7f9-e32b550978f8 X-Archives-Hash: 55f146b7d889f203f80f48aad16693e7 On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 19:42 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > But I agree, rekeywording amd64 to x86_64 would probably be more work than it's > worth. Can we not just hardwire an alias into the emerge codebase? I must admit, from a purely optical standpoint, the idea of saying my system is "amd64" when it is nothing of the sort really grates. If, internally, it just translated "x86_64" to "amd64" wouldn't that be ok? AfC Sydney -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list