Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms

[Robert Bridge <robert@robbieab.com>]

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On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:56:37 +0200
Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:48:19 +0200
> Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > Whatever.  Some of you seem to have some quite agressive dislikement
> > to it.  In the end it's just a name/tag.  I guess I could live with
> > anything, including c3p0.
> 
> Well, while I dislike x64 I'm more concerned about using different
> names (amd64 and x64) for the same architecture (same would apply if
> you had used i386 or ia32 in some cases instead of x86) and was just
> checking if there was any functional reason for that difference.

I would agree with this.

As a user coming to the project, x64 is NOT the same arch as amd64, it
has a different name! Select one name for the arch, and use it
everywhere. Consistent naming is more important than having the name
absolutely technically correct.

And seeing as Gentoo uses amd64 for all those arches in the main tree
with minimal problems, I personally would vote for using amd64 in -alt
to retain consistency with the rest of Gentoo.

Just my 2 cents.

Rob.

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