Re: should we really avoid the 686 kernel image?

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Subject: Re: should we really avoid the 686 kernel image?
From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:59:36 +0200
Message-id: <20101030135936.GY5089@login1.uio.no>
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[Holger Levsen]
> Hi,

Hi.  Glad to see you are looking at the package lists. :)

> currently we avoid the 686 kernel image so that the package is not
> on the CD/DVD.

Can you tell us why it is on the avoid list?

> So to make things easier for a tiny percentage of our users, we make
> things harder for the vast majority.

Who does it make it harder for, and who does it make it easier for?

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen

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