On 20-02-2008 19:23:26 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:59:11 -0500 > "William L. Thomson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please excuse my ignorance if this is a naive comment or has been > > brought up before. With all the non amd processors now with 64bit > > support. amd64 as a keyword seems a bit odd and off maybe. > > > > What's the possibility of switching amd64 to x86_64? > > > > Unless the work to do that is greater than the value of the change. > > As the benefit is close to nothing IMO the required work is definitely > greater by several orders of magnitude.
Well, that depends a bit. We basically introduced x64 a shorthand, and changed some keywords in prefix, of which I just finished the transition. It's basically just setting the new keyword in the profiles, and then gradually changing the keywords, e.g. on a repoman commit. That's sort of how I did it. You don't need any Portage support, IMHO. But I think for the current amd64 keyword, it's not worth the hassle to change it. Though, if for instance amd64-fbsd would be introduced, I think this keyword should have something more generic arch instead, like the x64 we use in prefix now. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
