From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91AC8139694 for ; Sun, 7 May 2017 19:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF55EE0C3A; Sun, 7 May 2017 19:42:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 71F49E0C13 for ; Sun, 7 May 2017 19:42:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wm0-f49.google.com (mail-wm0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: djc) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0A34833FE74 for ; Sun, 7 May 2017 19:42:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wm0-f49.google.com with SMTP id m123so44690739wma.0 for ; Sun, 07 May 2017 12:42:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/4CEzv/WlgyLsDKiS7BpNZHu8TwG6dITGi0wSuvSYFh8plIea+J drD8tupxihy4a5oNJlcxag71emzZjg== X-Received: by 10.25.79.67 with SMTP id a3mr21661088lfk.173.1494186150085; Sun, 07 May 2017 12:42:30 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.25.158.21 with HTTP; Sun, 7 May 2017 12:42:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1494185038.1333.2.camel@gentoo.org> References: <1494185038.1333.2.camel@gentoo.org> From: Dirkjan Ochtman Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 21:42:09 +0200 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp To: Gentoo Development Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: e847c266-9968-4dd9-9530-0b5eecb0c777 X-Archives-Hash: 65c23acb13914bcd5296f77cc0ae7f81 On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 9:23 PM, David Seifert wrote: > TL;DR > ia64/ppc/sparc teams are pretty much dead. They have been for a long > time and this won't change any time soon. Gentoo should focus its > resources on archs that are important and has the manpower to support. > Let us please drop these 3 archs to dev profiles to ease maintenance. +1 good idea. The slowest arches slow things down for everyone else. Cheers, Dirkjan