Subject: Re: major number unification?
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 11/28/2007 17:24:21
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Hello,

On Nov 28, 2007, at 17:15, Tim Rightnour wrote:

> So.. one of the few things that keeps us from having a shared ppc  
> userland
> (completely shared) is the major numbers are all different from  
> port to port.
> Would it be possible to maybe look into unifying some of these  
> majors into a
> single majors file for all the ppc ports?
>
> I realize there will be a bit of a flag day for some ports, but  
> many of the
> ports haven't worked in a long time anyway, so if we could do it  
> before they
> start working and getting users, it might be a good time.

I was thinking the same for a while but never got around to do  
something about it.
Something like having powerpc/conf/majors.powerpc, have the  
individual ports include it and just add port-specific stuff? I don't  
see anything really macppc-specific in there btw.

> macppc has the most users and history, so perhaps we base it on  
> that one?

Fine with me.

have fun
Michael
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