On 1/9/2005 20:54:14, Stephen P. Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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
