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Date:      Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:34:55 +0000
From:      David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan@FreeBSD.org>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r227536 - in head: release share/man/man7
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On 17 Nov 2011, at 14:31, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

>>>> Kinda gross but "FBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-amd64-bootonly.iso"?
>>>=20
>>> Can't we use one if they are equal?
>>=20
>> I'd prefer consistency. [...]
>=20
> But it looks so plain stupid!

I've had someone ask me what amd64-amd64 meant when I pointed them as =
the RC announcement.  I replied that I had no idea and suggested that =
possibly RE had been handed over to the department of redundancy =
department.  Having read this thread, I can now confidently say... that =
I still have no idea.

But (with my compiler-writer hat on) please tell me that we're not =
inventing yet another incompatible form of target triple.  We have at =
least twice as many as we need already...

David=



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