Re: What's wrong with debian?
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On Tuesday 01 Mar 2005 8:52 am, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> There's a big difference between being x86 only and dropping architectures
> that are rare, rarely used, or hardly ever used in a production
> environment. I don't know which architectures Debian supports, but if
> some take longer to make packages work, and are hardly ever used, then it
> is only right to question why they are supported. Is it only for prestige
> or the right to claim a higher level of geekiness, or is it because large
> numbers of people use that architecture so it needs support.
Building on multiple architectures has another big benefit. It finds out many
hidden bugs which aren't found when built on just one architecture. There are
many other vendors who depend on Debian's bug reports for many of the
architectures.
rrs
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