Agreed. To think otherwise is silly. As I am about to swith to Alpha, I have a conern: I maintain some dozen or so packages, currently under i386. There are people that go around compiling all the i386 stuff for the other archs. But nobody goes around compiling the stuff from the other archs for i386! So if I suddenly do all my package development on Alpha, the Alpha will have the current versions, and perhaps the Sparc and m68k too, but i386 will be obsolete! Fix anybody?
John Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 12:30 +0200 1998-10-14, Paul Slootman wrote: > >On Mon 12 Oct 1998, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > >> :-) debian/i386 is also a port! > > > >No. For 90% (I think more) of the packages it is the primary architecture. > >The word "port" implies carrying to _another_ architecture. Hence the > >package on the primary architecture is _not_ a port. > > To me it is a port, a port of Debian GNU/Linux. > -- > Joel Klecker (aka Espy) > <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> > Debian GNU/Linux user/developer on i386 and powerpc. > <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.debian.org/> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Visit the Air Capital Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org
