On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:23:38 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
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| I hope this not. As (iirc) I already said, it's impossible to combine
| x86 with anything else that's not 100% source and binary compatible
| with itself...

Untrue.

| Using a single keyword would make us unable to mark for example
| helixplayer (source) x86 and -amd64 at the same time (as it's now).

Untrue.

| While it can be simple to do for sparc or ppc that has relatively
| less users, and with no need for binary compatibility for -bin
| packages, it's probably going to be a *great* pain for both users AND
| developers of x86 and amd64 platforms (most probably for the latter,
| as x86 has basically no needs for multilib and so on).

Untrue.

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