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 -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
