Maciel: Because your distro should be cool

Posted Jan 25, 2011 18:48 UTC (Tue) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438)
In reply to: Maciel: Because your distro should be cool by cjwatson
Parent article: Maciel: Because your distro should be cool

You can't really compare Debian and Gentoo that way: if an ebuild is committed without being tested, it may not even build. Debian packages on the other hand won't make it into the repository if they fail to build.

Maciel: Because your distro should be cool

Posted Jan 25, 2011 20:18 UTC (Tue) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm well aware of that - but Gentoo does seem to err too far on the side of not trying a lot of the time.

Maciel: Because your distro should be cool

Posted Jan 25, 2011 22:12 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

I agree with this. I'm not using gentoo at the moment, but when I was using it I dan into more than one case where a perl program was only marked for x86, not for amd64 and when I pushed about it I was told that it wasn't enabled because it hadn't had anyone test it there and report that it worked. I reported that it did work, but months later it still hadn't gotten blessed for amd64 (let alone for other architectures)

yes you do have apps that have problems with different word sized and byte orders, but even then, one you know that it works on 32 bit little endian systems, you should be able to have a pretty good confidence that it will work on _all_ 32 bit little endian system (as long as the compile step doesn't barf)