On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:12:12PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > The right solution is of course to be able to specify patterns like > "*-linux-gnu".
Yes, but this is a long-term solution. > so you will have a hard time convincing package > maintainers or Debian policy that this change is desired. I'd have a harder time sending a report for each package every time a new non-linux arch is added. > And given that > both solutions are "wrong", and the first one is the less ugly _today_, I > don't see any reason for change. The reason is that (as usual) we're coping with a work that doesn't belong to us. If a package depends on a linux-specific one, this is the package maintainer (or the Linux-based ports maintainers) who should take care about it. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
