Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 06:52:27AM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
I found that a very large number of ports that mattered to me were marked
i386 only.

In some cases these designations are obsolete. They will require people-
power to work through them and see if they are overused.

In particular, many of these ought to have logic to set BROKEN to say
"currently doesn't work on amd64" rather than *_FOR_ARCHS which indicates
"can't ever work on amd64". Even in some of those cases "currently doesn't
work" might be obsolete; it will take people with amd64 boxes running
native willing to test them and report back.

Yes, this is going to take a great deal of hard work by many people.

I didn't look for PRs and didn't submit any.

If everyone does that, then yes, the situation won't improve.

mcl
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