On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 22:46, Brian Nelson wrote: > What I fail to understand is why Debian insists on supporting every > single arch itself.
Because, somewhat circularly, that's what has emerged as one of Debian's strong points, and we like it. Certainly it makes the releases slower. But it's one thing that really differentiates Debian from the competition. Being the most portable Free OS is worth something, in my opinion. Instead of trying to move Debian, a better approach is probably to make another OS built on Debian, where you ignore everything but ia32 or whatever. In fact, that's exactly what a number of OSes out there do.
