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

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

I know what unsupported means chris. what I'm referring to though are
bugs that would affect i686 as well. but possibly get closed because a
dev, like yourself, requested emerge --info and saw it was build on <
i686 and closes it for that reason. probably RESOLVED WONTFIX .

On 10/11/06, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 12:18 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> > I fear the idea that valid bugs may be closed do to a -march=i586.
>
> If they're a bug dealing with an issue only present on < i686, then yes,
> they likely would be, at least for release media, unless you also
> provide a patch.  This is what being "unsupported" means.  Now, if you
> give me a patch for some bug that only affects < i686, I'll apply it,
> provided it doesn't break >= i686, but I simply don't have the time to
> support < i686 with the release media anymore.
>
> By the way, the stage1 tarball and Minimal InstallCD are both built as
> "i386" and will remain that way for the foreseeable future.
>
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> Chris Gianelloni
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> Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
> Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
> Gentoo Foundation
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