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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] cleaning old architecutres in glibc and elsewhere</H1>
    <B>Dexter Morgan</B> 
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    <I>Thu Feb 24 09:05:28 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Tux99 &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tux99-mga at uridium.org</A>&gt; wrote:
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</I>&gt;<i> What is to be gained by removing the support for these architectures?
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</I>&gt;<i> I would say if it doesn't have any practical advantage (apart from 'code
</I>&gt;<i> cleanliness') then I would keep them, even if nobody wants to support
</I>&gt;<i> those archs now, you never know if someone might want to do it in the
</I>&gt;<i> future.
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this simply makes the spec file more readable and ease maitainance.

This is for this that misc ask, but do you think ppl will do an alpha
or sparc port ?   if we need to add support for new arches i think
this have to be new ones ( ARM, MIPS, ... )

my 2 cts
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