On Mon, March 14, 2005 10:10, Ingo Juergensmann said: > It would be better when the project would be honest and state that it want > to become a x86-compatible only distribution (with the small tribute to > powerpc users) than this braindead thingie.
The problems associated with carrying many archs have been well demonstrated. This proposal is a way to address these problems. If you want to keep all archs as a part of the central architecture, you have to come up with a way to tackle the given problems (and not just shout that you want to keep them - just continuing without changing anything is not realistic). If you disagree, please come up with an alternative plan yourself (preferably a worked out plan like this one). To me this decision sounds like a very good idea. Catering to some very specialised architectures can be good, but should not be a great burden on the total project. Trying to include everything in one big distribution is inherently not working (as has been shown with sarge). It is very well possible to maintain high quality ports of Debian, and infrastructure is provided for that, without making the release dependant on it. At the SquirrelMail project, we include things that are of general use into the main distribution. Someone who requires something that's only of interest to a very specific group can create and maintain that as a plugin. That seems a very logical way to deal with specialtistic features, and you see that approach in many different projects. Regards, Thijs Kinkhorst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
