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 1EAtHK-0002ho-FX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:55:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81HnjrW019894; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:49:45 GMT Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81Hl9P6028553 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:47:09 GMT Received: from dagger.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-dagger.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.11]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j81Hncjh026823 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:49:38 -0400 Received: from [128.173.184.73] (gs4073.geos.vt.edu [128.173.184.73]) by dagger.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.6.4-CR) with ESMTP id EAP62444; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:49:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <43173F2F.4080406@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:49:35 -0400 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050807) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 References: <20050901171028.GW18440@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> <200509011923.58239@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <43173BBD.3020704@gentoo.org> <43173D96.9030701@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <43173D96.9030701@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8251ee5f-2996-4dce-84f7-032ddb858bc9 X-Archives-Hash: a42b8270be896c8cafc5898e2a542523 Simon Stelling wrote: > Stephen P. Becker wrote: > >>> 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). >> >> >> >> So package.mask it in the (now hypothetical) amd64 sub-profile, and it >> is fixed. > > > That's exactly why i don't like the idea of merging keywords: You loose > the ~arch state. We weren't talking about ~arch, we were talking about -arch. > > Also, you can't compare sparc32/sparc64 to x86/amd64: sparc64 is just a > 64bit kernel with a 32bit userland. For users who want that, there is > already a keyword: x86. Wrong again. On mips, we have 64-bit kernels with *three* different possible userlands, n64, n32, and o32, and we do just fine (although as of right now, we haven't bothered to make any n64 stages since they would run slower than n32 and o32 on all of our supported hardware). -Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list