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



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On 10/15/06 14:28, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 01:10:33PM -0400, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> Why *shouldn't* KDE, GNOME, Firefox/Iceweasel, Tbird, and anything
>>> that requires Mesa/OpenGL, and all of Charles Plessy's scientific
>>> packages  be marked do_not_build on 68k/Coldfire & ARM?
>> Well, just for example, I know of people who run firefox on arm. 
> 
> Considering how we (firefox maintainers) got fixes for firefox on arm,
> mips, m68k and hppa, i can confirm that it is indeed used on
> architectures noone would have imagined it to be used ;)

I guess that's the answer, then... ;)

What about Wookey's not_RC idea?

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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