Hi! On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 25 March 2013 09:30, Tobias Klausmann <klaus...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > I'll say it again: if we don't make install media anymore and > > tell people to use SRCD instead, we will lose installation > > support for at least alpha, ppc/64, hppa and ia64. As for sparc, > > mips and arm, there _might_ be alternatives, but I'm not aware of > > them. > > > > We can suggest SRCD as an alternative just for the amd64/x86 isos
WFM. Note that I _agree_ that all the install image building is eating time and is a source for errors. Thing is, if we only build them for fringe archs, we might run into the "oh well, it's just for those few dozen users, it doesn't matter if it's slightly broken" effect. Even though the images were broken for the mainstream, it took quite a while (and a longish thread) for them to be fixed/taken care of. Imagine if they'd only been broken for ppc64 and alpha. While my arch team (alpha) is very lucky to have armin76 taking good care of the images, not all of them have somebody like him (who seems to have 36h-days and never sleeping). And if we drop support for the ISO on amd64/x86, fewer people will probably care about it, putting more strain on the already thinly-spread arch teams to fix stuff and track upstream package changes. Recommending SRCD as an alternative sounds fine by me, especially for the sheer volume of possible hardware combinations in amd64-land. But we should still think of our own ISOs as something supported on all arches we want to offer. Regards, Tobias -- "Brain, konban wa nani o shimashitai?" "Your Japanese is terrible, Pinky."
