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 1EAt7B-0007VG-8F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:44:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81Hf3Em000422; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:41:03 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81HcaoF025369 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:38:38 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EAt3f-00020v-WA for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:41:04 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EAt3e-0001wv-7S for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:41:02 +0100 Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:41:01 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 Message-ID: <20050901184101.5ed8cadc@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200509011923.58239@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> References: <20050901171028.GW18440@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> <200509011923.58239@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j81Hf3GK000422 X-Archives-Salt: ccc2c51b-cf96-4b97-808a-10dc7747f8f8 X-Archives-Hash: 2b32706ba832bbdd81a1f282f8184762 On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:23:38 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=C3=B2" wrote: | I hope this not. As (iirc) I already said, it's impossible to combine | x86 with anything else that's not 100% source and binary compatible | with itself... Untrue. | Using a single keyword would make us unable to mark for example | helixplayer (source) x86 and -amd64 at the same time (as it's now). Untrue. | While it can be simple to do for sparc or ppc that has relatively | less users, and with no need for binary compatibility for -bin | packages, it's probably going to be a *great* pain for both users AND | developers of x86 and amd64 platforms (most probably for the latter, | as x86 has basically no needs for multilib and so on). Untrue. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list