Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving more architectures to ~arch only

[Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org>]

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On 14.10.2021 20.10, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-10-14 at 15:40 +0200, Marek Szuba wrote:
>> Dear everyone,
>>
>> Following some private discussions, I feel quite strongly now that it 
>> would both considerably improve certain processes and make our use of 
>> limited manpower more efficient were we to further reduce the number of 
>> stable arches in Gentoo Linux. Specifically, I propose to drop
>>   - hppa,
>>   - ppc,
>>   - sparc,
>>   - x86
>> to ~arch-only status.
>>

Yes please. Still confused why people by default push KEYWORDS="~amd64
~x86", but I guess they're the most compatible with each other.

> 
> On one hand, I fully realize that these platforms are a hassle (hppa
> and x86 especially).  On the other hand, I wouldn't want to basically go
> tell Dakon "sorry, you're doing a good job but we've arbitrarily decided
> it's not worth your effort".

Isn't this just strengthening the point; there's one guy behind all work ;)

> 
> While we're discussing it, maybe we should start by defining a clear
> criteria for platform support tiers?  Like: what are the requirements
> for a platform to maintain stable keywords?  Then the decisions could
> look less arbitrary, and people would have a clear way of knowing what
> they need to do if they wish the platform to continue having stable
> keywords.
> 

++

-- juippis


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