It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker archs cluttering up the tree and making maintainers' work harder. Clearly, something needs to be done about this.
I think the first step is to establish what all the problem architectures are. We all know that mips is by far the worst offender, but by how much? Rather than speculating wildly, I decided to make use of adjutrix and wc to find out. So, here we have a table showing just how much mips is a slacker arch: Arch Number of packages where this arch is slacking ================ ============================================== m68k 37 ppc-macos 56 sh 84 s390 87 arm 120 sparc 155 hppa 176 ia64 221 ppc64 278 mips 292 ppc 359 alpha 361 amd64 413 x86 560 As expected, supporting minority archs is leading to tree-wide bloat and huge initial rsync times for users. Clearly something has to be done to protect Gentoo from those useless minority archs! I mean, how many users do we *really* have using amd64 or x86? -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/
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