On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 11:34:17PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > While packages are allowed to not support entire architectures > outright, there's a problem when some code requires a feature that is > not present in the arch's baseline. Effectively, this punishes an arch > for keeping compatibility. The package's maintainers are then required > to conform to the baseline even when this requires a significant work > and/or is a pointless exercise (eg. scientific number-crunching code > makes no sense to run on a 2002 box). A partial arch (whatever that is, yeah) with the x86-64-v3 baseline, and optionally raise the main amd64 baseline to x86-64-v2? Assuming we don't want to mass-modify software to support code separation into hwcaps etc. or runtime detection.
> With that in mind, in 2017 I added "isa-support" which implements > install-time checks via a dependency. Alas, this doesn't work as well > as it should: (that was expected tbh) -- WBR, wRAR
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