[Mageia-dev] cleaning old architecutres in glibc and elsewhere

Dexter Morgan dmorganec at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 09:05:28 CET 2011


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
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> What is to be gained by removing the support for these architectures?
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> I would say if it doesn't have any practical advantage (apart from 'code
> cleanliness') then I would keep them, even if nobody wants to support
> those archs now, you never know if someone might want to do it in the
> future.
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this simply makes the spec file more readable and ease maitainance.

This is for this that misc ask, but do you think ppl will do an alpha
or sparc port ?   if we need to add support for new arches i think
this have to be new ones ( ARM, MIPS, ... )

my 2 cts


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