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 1EAwrx-0003M6-KT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:45:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81LfWuq025410; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:41:32 GMT Received: from rs25s9.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (rs25s9.datacenter.cha.cantv.net [200.44.33.10]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81LcVoA017951 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:38:32 GMT Received: from dC9F33F54.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net (dC9F33F54.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net [201.243.63.84]) by rs25s9.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (8.13.4/8.13.0/3.0) with ESMTP id j81Lf0KR009597 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:41:00 -0400 X-Matched-Lists: [] Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by dC9F33F54.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EAwnt-0001ua-GA for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:41:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4317756D.2060401@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:41:01 -0400 From: "Luis F. Araujo" Organization: Gentoo inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050820) 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> <43174E56.10506@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <43174E56.10506@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on rs25s9.datacenter.cha.cantv.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: 3df5aad0-ca0e-4a66-a642-5e926ab4cd62 X-Archives-Hash: 8211c15950cad41d8106b63125a10401 Stephen P. Becker wrote: >> 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. You are saying that the quality of x86 stuff in the tree is worse than the other arches? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list