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Re: smarter way to differ architectures needed?



On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 10:31:29AM +0200, Brederlow wrote:
> > I would feel disappointed by such a "solution". Seperating out a port will
> > make all integration efforts harder, and please consider the consequences
> > for our complete infrastructure (mirror, documentation, etc). Furthermore,
> > most of the binary all stuff is equally useful for both systems.
> 
> It's not quite a port, it's a different operating system. :)

To me, it's a port of the Debian infrastructure to a new OS :)
 
> > > Also its much easier to mirror or download the stuff.
> > 
> > How so? I don't see this.
> 
> When I'm a hurd fan, I can just select debian-hurd and hit the
> download key (together with stabling symlincs) and I have my hurd for
> all my archs.

I see. Well, your proposed link farms are nice, but in general I think we
should stay conservative. I don't know much about ftp archives and
mirroring, so I am a bad consultant :)

Marcus

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