From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAvdN-0005yM-1j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:26:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81KMULx026249; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:22:30 GMT Received: from mail-relay-3.tiscali.it (mail-relay-3.tiscali.it [213.205.33.43]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81KKlTK024212 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:20:47 GMT Received: from default (84.222.82.234) by mail-relay-3.tiscali.it (7.2.063) id 431573C400027BED for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:21:51 +0200 Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:26:25 +0200 X-Mailer: InScribe Message-ID: References: <43174E56.10506@gentoo.org> To: From: "Kevin F. Quinn" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j81KKlTK024212 X-Archives-Salt: 101f0427-1cdc-48ea-8006-6833a582f766 X-Archives-Hash: b4541a1fb7882b44477c9bb10b457ca7 On 1/9/2005 20:54:14, Stephen P. Becker (geoman@gentoo.org) wrote: > > Is it just me, it seems that only sparc/mips devs want that kind of > > change and non none of the x86/amd64 devs... > > > > I still dont see what practical advantage that would bring to x86/amd64 > > users or developers? > > If you haven't figured out the reason we are pushing for this sort of > thing yet, it is because x86 is unsupported in Gentoo (if you consider > what all the other arches have to do to be "supported"). As a result, > it causes the quality of the portage tree to suffer. Time and time > again, it has been brought up that x86 should have an arch team, yet > nobody ever acts on it. Well, merging the "two" arches will help solve > this problem. Surely ths solution to that problem is to set up an x86 arch team, not to put such big a millstone around the neck of the amd64 team. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list