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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:58:46 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Remko Lodder" <remko@elvandar.org>
To: "Peter Jeremy" <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On Tue, July 31, 2007 9:20 pm, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2007-Jul-31 21:01:20 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>>It may be sensible to phase out the alpha-specific parts now, or at
>>least make it easy to skip them (since we don't really support alpha in
>>the latest releases).
>
> Alpha is still supported in 6.x.  Since 7.x isn't even out yet,
> deleting the Alpha-specific parts is probably premature.  It might
> be worthwhile adding "not supported beyond 6.x" notes.
>
> --
> Peter Jeremy
>

Hence the "make it easy to skip them" part :-) that will make deletion
much easier later on.

Thanks,
Remko

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