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Jacques A. Vidrinew wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:09:22AM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
[...]
>> <architecture> should be stuff like i386? I'm not sure that there are
>> many applications for that. Usually the description is sufficient for
>> those purposes. Or did you have something different in mind?
>
> Yeah, stuff like `i386'.  I don't see it (or <category>) as useful
> for the FreeBSD Project today, either: these are for use by other
> projects.  In the case of <architecture>, I'm not yet sure that it
> will make it through pre-1.2.  I'm still working with the project to
> understand their needs.

FWIIW, I would find a <system> tag that enables the sharing of entries 
across operating systems far more useful.
-Oliver