Arjan van de Ven wrote:
So actually that could be a good reason why we should switch over to
i486 as base arch?
for the glibc package... sure ;)
for all other packages... none will use the new instructions afaics
Absolutely agreed, more pain that gain for s/i386/i486/ everywhere.
However -- as always -- the problem is one of perception, and '*.i386.rpm'
signifies something quite different than '*.i486.rpm' no matter what instructions
are actually used within the package.
Perhaps we need to change the perception in order to lose linux threads forever.
Again, I know quite well more pain than gain, fixing all the bleeping scripts
that have embedded i386/* and/or *.i386.rpm, to know 'i486' is gonna break
a whole lot of process.
But perhaps it's time to signify Something Else Instead.
73 de Jeff
