On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:31:27PM +0000, simon raven wrote: > LET IT BE KNOWN: > that OldWorld PPC sub-arch will not be supported directly in the new > installer. > i think this sucks. > 1) there are plenty of still functional oldworld machines out there > 2) i think it shows an utter lack of consideration for recycling, re-use > of older hardware and the environment > 3) is totally irresponsible > 4) devfs is broken, crufty, and will be totally gone by 2.7 very likely, > and using this will make oldworld installs impossible (at least from > d-i; it'll still be possible to install from woody floppies and > dist-upgrade). > go ahead and ban my IP or SMTPd, i'm seriously thinking of moving to a > *BSD now, and i'll make sure that anyone and everyone i know that uses > oldworlds *DON'T* use debian sarge stable. and maybe even not debian, > for making such IMO, dumb decisions. The only person I know has *decided* that Debian won't support OldWorld PPC in sarge is you. I'm sure that (as with all things around here), if there are people willing to spend the time to figure out how to make d-i work for OldWorld Macs, it'll be supported -- and if not, not. Supporting OldWorld Macs certainly isn't high on *my* priority list, despite the fact that I have one sitting in my closet; they have always been a pain to make work with Linux, and no one here is *responsible* to implement features they won't use, sorry. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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