forwarding this message to where the discussion is taking place. * Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-14 21:05]: > I'm not subscribed to debian-boot, so I'll preface this with that fact > that I have not read any of the discussion so far, so excuse a rehash. > > Simply take this in. I'm not posting to drag out any further debate, only > to add my two cents. > > I think removing sparc would be a huge mistake. When people like David > Miller, who currently works for Redhat, have switched to Debian because we > support this architecture, it means a lot. Davd develops sparc64 using > Debian now. > > Removing our support for the architecture only opens the door for someone > else to do so. Sparc, especially UltraSPARC, is a widely used system, and > is commonly used to install Linux on. The distribution of choice is > Debian. > > Not only that but UltraSPARC has far more users, and is supported far > better by kernel developers than other architectures that are slated to > remain in the list. > > ia64 is near death. Even Intel is waving the white flag on it. PowerPC, > while great, is mostly for hackers. Most people don't by a PowerMac to > install Linux on, and those non-Mac PPC machines mostly have to do with > embedded development, and not a userbase. > > That's the end of my pro-sparc rant. Hate to see ideas like this even hit > the floor. How about pruning packages rather than architectures? Cleaning > us out of cruft has far more usefulness than removing official support for > architectures. The package list grows at a far greater rate that our > architecture list, and consumes far greater resources than any single > architecture. > > Remove one architecture, and you remove an entire userbase. Remove 10% of > our least used packages and I bet you wont lose but a handful of users. > > -- > Debian - http://www.debian.org/ > Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ > Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ > WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
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