On 10/5/10, Gary Driggs <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 5, 2010, at 5:59 AM, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > >> I don't see how this is the reason for /bin/ls being compiled in 64-bit. > > True but Apache, MySQL, OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice, icecat & other > browsers, as well as several other apps would benefit from having a smaller, > optional repo for 64-bit users. But who wants to step forward & offer to > maintain all those packages? > A lot of that would benefit just as much from altivec support (other than spreadsheets of high finance I suppose), which would have a larger user base, especially since there were no G5 laptops, a lot of people still using the g4 and more might if they were speeded up by 3x, seeing as how they are priced so low, lower than a new netbook.
Is there really much maintainance work, I don't know of any problems here. Brian p.s. what about packages such as mozilla-altivec can such be added ? That does help, even without library support. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
