On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 07:47:01AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:12:41AM +0100, Wookey wrote: >> tools POV). The one _good_ reason for using the aarch64 name is avoiding >> accidental matches with arm* in various bits of configery so leaving >> that alone probably makes sense despite the silly name. > >How much of the arm* silliness is there actually? There's already quite >significant changes between various arm sub-architectures, so matching >on arm* can already be considered a bad idea.
It's not clear how much out there *is* actually broken like this, to be honest. But it was one of the concerns raised about the new triplet for armhf, and for a totally new architecture people are/were very worried about the possibility of breakage. There is already historical precedent for breakage in triplet naming... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
