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Date:      Fri, 13 Mar 1998 08:16:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Herdman <andrew@whine.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com>, FreeBSD Current Mailing List <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: i386 and Alpha Src Tree Question 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980313081551.17204B-100000@why>
In-Reply-To: <18394.889773844@time.cdrom.com>

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On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

>> Since I have only Intel class machines like many others. Does it
>> make sense to organize the tree where cvsups and the general make file
>> sequence does not download or depend on the Alpha code being in the
>> tree?
>
>Probably not, no.  It's not something that's entirely confined to a
>single hierarchy (support is and must be intertwined at many different
>levels of the source tree).
>
>> It seems like we are going to have lots of space taken up by the Alpha
>> code.
>
>Bite the bullet.  The OpenBSD and NetBSD folks have been bearing this
>cost for ages, and you should count yourself lucky that you don't also
>have to deal with m68k or PPC or VAX code, for example, in your
>tree. :-)

Yet.

Andrew


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