On 12/22/14 23:55, William Hubbs wrote:
All,
this discussion got side-tracked into gcc, which was not my intent;
let's go back to my specific question about glibc.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:22:41PM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
some of such software is
binary, some other is too large to be updated regularly.
Please give REASONS why things should remain maintained. So far (except for
the gcc-3/hardened explanations, and for gcc-3 doing more fortran than
gcc-4(??)) this is mostly mumbo-jumbo about "someone might need it",
proprietary binary blobs (should we even care? if yes, why?) and similar.
I vote that we shouldn't care about proprietary binary blobs.
Oh dear god this is going from bad to worse. I love blobs as much as
the next person but there are people that need this stuff if gentoo is
to be useful for them. Let's not care about blobs and shut down
linx.net where Tony Vroon (Chainsaw) uses gentoo and runs broadcom II
which need blobs.
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