On 18 Feb 2003, seth vidal wrote: > Now is it reasonable to read that as: > > alphaev67 compat w/ alphaev6 > alphaev6 compat w/ alphaca56 > > and are they therefore transitive? not 'transitive, in the mathmatical sense -- the RHS element is an element of a set named by the center element, having attribute LHS element. > is alphaev67 compat with alphaev6? yes > I would say yes based on what the athlon -> i386 say. > > And if that's true can I look through this list, grab things where the > line ends in noarch and call those the "base classes" - doing a quick > grep of the one on my system that gets me: <snip> > but then there is ppc and ppc64 which appear to not support noarch > packages. Is that an endian issue? I cannot answer authoritatively, but almost certainly this is a typographical omission. A bugzilla may be in order to clarify this. -- Russ Herrold