On 14.10.2021 20.10, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 2021-10-14 at 15:40 +0200, Marek Szuba wrote: >> Dear everyone, >> >> Following some private discussions, I feel quite strongly now that it >> would both considerably improve certain processes and make our use of >> limited manpower more efficient were we to further reduce the number of >> stable arches in Gentoo Linux. Specifically, I propose to drop >> - hppa, >> - ppc, >> - sparc, >> - x86 >> to ~arch-only status. >>
Yes please. Still confused why people by default push KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86", but I guess they're the most compatible with each other. > > On one hand, I fully realize that these platforms are a hassle (hppa > and x86 especially). On the other hand, I wouldn't want to basically go > tell Dakon "sorry, you're doing a good job but we've arbitrarily decided > it's not worth your effort". Isn't this just strengthening the point; there's one guy behind all work ;) > > While we're discussing it, maybe we should start by defining a clear > criteria for platform support tiers? Like: what are the requirements > for a platform to maintain stable keywords? Then the decisions could > look less arbitrary, and people would have a clear way of knowing what > they need to do if they wish the platform to continue having stable > keywords. > ++ -- juippis
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