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Jeff Garzik wrote:
I would rather the problem be approached in a logical,
scalable fashion:
by distributing the workload across the package maintainers
who have
firsthand knowledge. ie. how things worked before.
PPC hardware isn't exactly common these days. I'm sure there are a few machines on campus that have PPC (there are definitely SPARC workstations sprinkled around). As it stands, I have no useful access to any of the machines (I guess a Live CD could get some special access, though at what cost to my status as a student, I don't know).
But you're dodging the larger point -- Fedora has, de facto,
demoted big
endian support in its entirety to a second-hand effort, rather
than
distributed the workload much more widely. Given M package
maintainers
and N secondary-platform volunteers, it is clear M > N by
orders of
magnitude.
Given that ppc32 and ppc64 (or pick your BE platform) have
demonstrated
an ability to detect problems not found on LE, it seems like
this policy
change will directly lead to missed bugs, and an attendent
decline in
software quality.
Was ppc really such a burden?
Jeff
Build times were the worst part of it IMO. With how it was set up (ppc being default even on ppc64) ppc64 could have been dropped and ppc be left intact.
- --Ben