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 1EAstd-0006Yj-K8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:30:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81HQ5Gq001470; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:26:05 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 j81HLVpp015742 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:21:32 GMT Received: from relay-pt3.poste.it ([62.241.4.129]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAsn9-0007q0-6V for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:23:59 +0000 Received: from enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org (151.44.18.170) by relay-pt3.poste.it (7.2.063) (authenticated as emanuela.zanon@poste.it) id 430B3A430001B650 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:23:59 +0200 From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?q?Petten=C3=B2?=" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:23:38 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050901171028.GW18440@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050901171028.GW18440@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1878978.qn7jIrNduY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509011923.58239@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> X-Archives-Salt: 56c666cf-c8f5-4807-b92d-e5a5e9d68544 X-Archives-Hash: 36c603ce432cc9b598391d7249ac5e69 --nextPart1878978.qn7jIrNduY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 01 September 2005 19:10, Grant Goodyear wrote: > Now that we have a new council that (I hope) will be active in approving > or rejecting GLEPs, perhaps someone should be writing a GLEP about > combining x86 and amd64? I hope this not. As (iirc) I already said, it's impossible to combine x86 w= ith=20 anything else that's not 100% source and binary compatible with itself... The reason is actually simple: x86 is, or at least was, the reference=20 architecture for almost all programmers. There are too many packages that works *just* on x86, both at source and=20 binary level. Using a single keyword would make us unable to mark for example helixplayer= =20 (source) x86 and -amd64 at the same time (as it's now). While it can be simple to do for sparc or ppc that has relatively less user= s,=20 and with no need for binary compatibility for -bin packages, it's probably= =20 going to be a *great* pain for both users AND developers of x86 and amd64=20 platforms (most probably for the latter, as x86 has basically no needs for= =20 multilib and so on). Please don't do that. =2D-=20 Diego "Flameeyes" Petten=C3=B2 Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM) --nextPart1878978.qn7jIrNduY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDFzkue2h1+2mHVWMRAkmiAKC4vH+g8zpU53ydecgM1EfQFhsnlACgg61s dNZ5bxKu0sfFRfPCxAht/nE= =9ze8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1878978.qn7jIrNduY-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list