On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:35 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:09:24 +0100 > Matthias Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This kind of conversation is not technical at all... Ciaranm, are you > > a MIPS user? If so, do you think that running KEYWORDS="mips" is less > > likely to result in breakage than running KEYWORDS="~mips"? > > I think you'd need a much larger sample than one to get any meaningful > answer there (and it might be worth doing it across all other archs > too, to find out whether mips is in any way anomalous).
Right, but if everyone I ask gives me an answer like this, it will take quite a while before we have even two opinions... As you are engaged in this discussion very heavily, I thought that maybe you are a occasional MIPS user, that could point out, that for example removing stable keywords for all MIPS packages, would have a quite negative impact for most MIPS boxes. The thing that really bothers me about this discussion is, that there seems to be almost no input from the people actually affected (users and developers), which makes the whole thing a bit pointless, unless it turns out that exactly this is the problem, in which case MIPS support may be removed entirely without doing any harm.
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