On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 12:12 +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:05:44 +0000
> Francesco Riosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > may be the time to add a new arch "386" ?
> 
> If by new arch you mean new KEYWORD, no. It's pointless, and you'd
> have a hell of a time finding anyone to maintain the keywords. A
> seperate i386 profile under default-linux/x86, though, with its own
> package.mask file and regular x86 keywords, may be a useful thing to
> have depending how the glibc stuff works out.

Well, default-linux/x86/no-nptl suffices until such point as glibc < 2.6
gets some nasty vulnerability that we cannot fix.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation

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