Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Colin Walters <walters@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 20:16, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au> writes:
> > 
> > > Supporting our users who want to compile optimised binaries from our
> > > source packages has NOTHING TO DO WITH OFFICAL MIRROR SIZE.
> > 
> > True, but I advocate the really radical thing, which is to provide
> > binaries for our users already optimized for different architectures.
> 
> I think this should start out as a semi-official project, like somewhere
> on .debian.net.  If people really like it, then we could think about
> merging it.

I know that most people disagree with me on the point, so I don't
press it.  I agree that it's the kind of thing that might best be done
in the manner you describe.