[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The only valid reasons for not including it are lack of LSB compliance > > (which can still be easily achieved with a i386 chroot) and mirror space > > (which will be saved using partial mirroring). > > Why not just fix these instead of using hacks?
To become LSB compliant would involve changing half the packages in Debian to achieve a result to many AMD64 developers consider inelegant; furthermore, a multiarch design is being created that would allow us to install Linux binaries on NetBSD or Hurd, or ix86 binaries on PowerPC, provided an appropriate emulator, as well as 32-bit on a 64-bit system. This will require changing half the packages, but for a better design. It's not a hack, it's a feature. The current mirroring system can hardly be considered a hack. There's mumblings about space restrictions, but that's really in the people who set up the mirror system's bailwick. It is a little frustrating that s390 and friends could join, no questions ask, but AMD64 gets the third degree. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
