Hi, On Mon, 14.03.2005 at 07:37:51 +0100, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In general I would like to say that supporting a lot of architectures was > an important difference between Debian and other distributions. I know the > drawbacks of this but I just do not want to hide my opinion that I do not > like the idea of reducing the number of supported architectures that > drastical.
I'm also looking forward to install Debian on a Sparc machine that has just arrived. Btw, why, or how, do other projects with much fewer users and also much fewer developers, manage to release for more than 4 architecture? *BSD come to mind... > IMHO the effect would be that people will start forking Debian for porting > issues and we will loose the power of those porters while they will spend > time for things they would not have to do else. > > I think we should at least vote about such a drastic change. Fully agreed! Btw, I think that requiring 10% of all downloads penalizes those users who have more than one machine and use means like apt-proxy, and/or other automatic installation tools like FAI. Best, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
