On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 9:57 AM Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 9:19 AM Kent Fredric <ken...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 07:26:24 -0500 > > Ben Kohler <bkoh...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Is there a good reason we can't have a legacy profile for this? > > > > Or perhaps, a new (exp) arch entirely dedicated to legacy x86? > > Sounds like a lot of work for something that will be used by very few people. >
I think an exp arch is also overkill. How many packages simply can't be built for i486? I think a profile+masking makes a lot more sense than an entire new level of QA that touches every ebuild in the tree because there might be a few packages that don't work on 25 year old hardware. -- Rich
