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Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?



On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 07:30:15PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> 
> Isn't it up to the maintainer to say $package is not suited for $architecture? 
> And aren't maintainers happy to receive hints (e.g. from porters or users of 
> a certain package), which specific package is not suited for a specific 
> architecture?
> 
I would think that by definition a user of a package is the last person
who would be qualified to make a determinitation as to whether a
particular pacakge is suitable for a particular architecture.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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