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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 10:13:42 -0400
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo i486 support
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 9:57 AM Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 9:19 AM Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 07:26:24 -0500
> > Ben Kohler <bkohler@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Thoughts?
> >
> > Is there a good reason we can't have a legacy profile for this?
> >
> > Or perhaps, a new (exp) arch entirely dedicated to legacy x86?
>
> Sounds like a lot of work for something that will be used by very few people.
>
I think an exp arch is also overkill. How many packages simply can't
be built for i486? I think a profile+masking makes a lot more sense
than an entire new level of QA that touches every ebuild in the tree
because there might be a few packages that don't work on 25 year old
hardware.
--
Rich