i486 base architecture

Nicholas Miell nmiell at comcast.net
Thu Dec 2 03:37:46 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:07 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> OK, to summarize:
> 
>     a) There's a whole lot of pain and not much gain messing with 
> package file names (and file paths and scripts and ... )
>     b) The dependency
>             Requires: cpu(cmov)
>          (or equivalent token) might (*will* imho) be useful identifying 
> packages that actually use, say, cmov.
>         (Note: there's more than cmov that needs marking, generalizing 
> the cpu(...) name space is quite straightforward.)
>     c) Users want a clear call on what package file name to install, as 
> some *.i386.rpm will not run on arch i386, very confusing.
>     d) linuxthreads needs to die! die! die! (but that's just me ;-)
> 
> Name your poison (if any) please.

What's going to Provide: cpu(cmov)?
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Nicholas Miell <nmiell at comcast.net>




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