Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users

["Caleb Cushing" <xenoterracide@gmail.com>]

I fear the idea that valid bugs may be closed do to a -march=i586.
release media should not have to be tuned to i386. perhaps thes older
machines shouldn't be a priority, but that doesn't mean they should
become completely unsupported. if a general move to i686 is desired
perhaps the archs should split x86 and i686 or some such. and
applications that are unable to be supported on < i686 be removed from
the x86 tree.

On 10/11/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org> posted 452BB22D.30106@gentoo.org,
> excerpted below, on  Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:46:05 +0200:
>
> > A couple of years ago (when we were still  using gcc-2.95 I used to run
> > gentoo on my server machine which was a pentium-60 (with fdiv bug). While
> > it took a while to compile the bigger packages it was certainly workable.
> > I did it because I didn't have a better machine, not to be able to say I
> > did it.
>
> Well yes, except that I'd guess that was a bit more than a couple of years
> ago (I've been on Gentoo since 2004.0/2004.1, and IIRC it was gcc-3.3
> then, so 2.95 would have been what, at least three years ago??).  That
> means the archs are a third(-ish) of a decade further out of date than
> they were then.  That's a significant amount of time in computer terms.
>
> Anyway, not supported doesn't mean can't do it.  As I suggested in a
> different reply, it could and would likely still be done, just as Gentoo
> based systems are run on all sorts of stuff according to embedded, and in
> fact they may choose to continue some support, as I believe pentium-class
> embedded is quite popular.  Not supported just means less frequent install
> media or bootstrapping from other distributions instead of Gentoo install
> media, and that bugs can be closed if desired and appropriate, based on
> that alone.
>
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