I'm replying here because I couldn't decide whether or not it made more sense to reply to your email, your blog post, your reply to flameeyes blog post, your radio commercial, your television advertisement, or your phone call.
The things that this doesn't do (Or if it does it isn't documented) is account for: *packages where there is no stable version on that arch. (Or does adjutrix still suggest keywording.. its unclear) * This doesn't address the initial claim that versions of packages are in the tree waiting on only a mips/lesser supported arch to keyword them. It only says that some arch has keyworded a package stable, and others havn't, this does not show that version N is only in the tree because of arch xyz (which is why I stated that adjutrix doesn't do this). * The numberes themselves could be considdered useless as it only shows packages which have been marked ~ on that arch in the past (not missing keywords)-- Therefore on an arch like x86/amd64 where more packages have been tested, there will be more to stabilize. (I realize that this doesn't really affect the initial claim any, just pointing out how the numbers are not that representative. On 2/19/07, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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