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 ..
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? 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! -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM)
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