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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] How a new ARCH is added to Gentoo?
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> Is there any article that elaborate my question?
> My aim is to explain, why Gentoo is much more agile then
> any other binary distribution when hopping between arches.
> Lets say we started development on x86, then we want to
> move to another arch, or a totally new arch. I would like
> to know the process, lets say compared to Debian.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/318251
-mike