On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:11:09 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thursday 01 September 2005 20:02, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Take a look at how sparc and mips currently handle packages which | > will run on some CPU kinds or ABIs but not others. | xine-lib, was not compiling on sparc32 (as there's a bug open), | wasn't working on sparc64 (sigbus) until 1.1.0... all the versions | are marked ~sparc ..
Ideally they wouldn't be keyworded at all. | Why I still looking for REASONING to your "Untrue" specifically about | | | 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, | | just to start from? More users means more QA feedback. This means x86/amd64 will have an *easier* job. And, uh, there are people out there shipping binaries for sparc and mips. | The *users* are the imporant part... mips and sparc are WAY far from | the quantity of users of amd64 and x86... and the LEVEL of the users | themselves, too! Again, more users means more QA feedback. Other than that, the users won't see any difference except for the profile they use. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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