On Thu, 2003-08-07 08:34:37 +0200, Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>
wrote in message <[🔎] 16177.62205.714208.37058@gargle.gargle.HOWL>:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw writes:
> > Would Debian accept two ix86 distributions? One i386 and, say, i[56]86?
>
> No, unless you can explain why you need to run KDE, eclipse and
> openoffice on an i386. This has to be a subset due to bandwidth and
> disk limitations.
Personally, I don't really care for that monster applications. But
having apt-get would be nice, especially on a Debian system:)
> > I'd even volunteer to rebuild all the packages... What's needed for
> > that? Basically some changes to dpkg --print-architecture, if I'm
> > right... As well as changing a number of configure statements...
>
> rebuilding is not the problem. come up with a plan to introduce the
> new architecture and how packages can be built for both archs without
> many changes to the packaging. prove your plan by setting up a
Thinking about it... Seems I'll soon learn something about Debian's real
internals...
MfG, JBG
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