On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Matthias Koenig wrote: > LaMont Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:13:14PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> On Tuesday 17 July 2007, LaMont Jones wrote: > >> > - rdev should be delivered on amd64 as well as i386. (And evidence > >> > that I don't know automake syntax, I expect...) > >> > >> i thought rdev was a dead utility and should be deprecated rather than > >> expanded ? that was the answer i got a long time ago when i proposed > >> having rdev built/installed for x86_64-* targets and i have yet to > >> actually see anyone using this thing ... > >> -mike > > > > The Debian/amd64 crowd asked for it... if we're building it for i386, we > > should probably build it for x86-64. or deprecate it everywhere... > > Ack, I already have the same patch in Suse because of some old bug > requesting this for x86_64.
i had a similar fix in Gentoo a while ago but upstream rejected it at the time the manpage of rdev already says "do not use me" ... perhaps we should reinforce that by making rdev a build-but-not-install binary ? -mike
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