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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:15:18 +0000
Luis Medinas <metalgod@gentoo.org> wrote:

> 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 the
> tree that needs to be patched to work on AMD64 so we cannot cover
> AMD64/x86 under the same keyword. 

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.
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