Re: Q to all candidates: should we have more ports?
>>>>> "Wouter" == Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
Wouter> Hi all, One thing that Debian has historically been good at,
Wouter> is to produce ports for various architectures. However,
Wouter> we're not the most widely ported; Gentoo, for instance, has
Wouter> been ported to Interix and macOS[1]. NetBSD has a few ports
Wouter> that we do not have, and its pkgsrc is available for a large
Wouter> amount of other operating systems beyond NetBSD itself,
Wouter> including macOS, HPUX, IRIX, AIX, QNX, and Solaris[2].
Wouter> Should we try to catch up with these other systems in terms
Wouter> of ports? Specifically today, should we try to make Debian
Wouter> usable on any of the operating system kernels that I quoted
Wouter> above?
As DPL I would support any emerging consensus in the project with regard
to what ports we should have.
--Sam
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