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 1EAuHt-0002oA-T9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:59:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81ItfFf008475; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:55:41 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 j81IpmbS026147 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:51:49 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 j81IsI39013491 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:54:18 -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 EAQ10800; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:54:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <43174E56.10506@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:54:14 -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> <20050901184101.5ed8cadc@snowdrop.home> <200509011950.24494@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20050901190259.31d68edd@snowdrop.home> <1125599804.15722.18.camel@cocagne.max-t.internal> In-Reply-To: <1125599804.15722.18.camel@cocagne.max-t.internal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 06c611c7-5857-4be9-884b-1f6f314e7486 X-Archives-Hash: 250fe453545bf9f91e3703c692b4d7d8 > Is it just me, it seems that only sparc/mips devs want that kind of > change and non none of the x86/amd64 devs... > > I still dont see what practical advantage that would bring to x86/amd64 > users or developers? If you haven't figured out the reason we are pushing for this sort of thing yet, it is because x86 is unsupported in Gentoo (if you consider what all the other arches have to do to be "supported"). As a result, it causes the quality of the portage tree to suffer. Time and time again, it has been brought up that x86 should have an arch team, yet nobody ever acts on it. Well, merging the "two" arches will help solve this problem. -Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list