Re: Bug#263743: Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:26:17AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> No Debian tool depends on s/32/64/ or s/$/64/. As for me, I type "ppc"
> instead of "powerpc" very often, even though I should know better by now.
Likewise. This would seem to be a case of "once may be regarded as a
misfortune, twice looks like carelessness". To deviate from the LSB
*and* the apparently intuitive name purely to remain "consistent" with
an unfortunate existing name (when even that consistency is fairly
bogus) would seem a particularly foolish thing to do.
Cheers,
Nick
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