Th: dropping athlon and maybe deprecating ppc?

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Tuesday 10 of March 2009, Pawel Golaszewski wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > > > I'm considering dropping athlon architecture since I see no real
> > > > gain over i686. athlon would be deleted from ftp and athlon->i686
> > > > symlink created.
> > >
> > > Bad idea this way. It will destroy many systems (look at perl dirs).
> >
> > "destroy", how so?
>
> poldek --upgrade
>
> ...few perl modules upgraded and system is not working

How is that possible? There are dependencies that won't allow random upgrading 
of architecture dependant parts.

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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