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Re: Unsafe GENERIC? - Re: (unknown)



Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> writes:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>
>> Well... Could we arrange it so that we have safe monolithic GENERIC
>> until issues are resolved somehow?
>
> For i386, use MONOLITHIC instad of GENERIC
>
> For amd64, the default is still MONOLITHIC, if I remember correctly.

This produces unnecessary confusion and nothing more.

Update procedure becomes more machine-dependent.
Even on commodity hardware, where some users prefer to stay with i386
because of e.g. WINE and other 32-bit only software.


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