Re: Comments on policy modifications
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 10:00:36PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> >
> > So should we change i386-hurd to i386-gnu on the ftp archive? This would
> > also express the explicit wish of Gordon, IIRC.
>
> I don't think this is strictly necessary, it would add confusion to our
> users, which would ask over and over again about this "gnu" thing (is not
> linux "gnu" also?). BTW: On the ftp archive we have "hurd-i386", not
> i386-hurd.
True. Seems that I'm completely confused by the architecture string opposed
to the name the architecture carries on the ftp site. Are they at all
related? [maybe I better stay out of the discussion, but it'd be nice if
someone could summarize the issues at hand shortly].
Thank you,
Marcus
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