On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 21:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > The problem that I've got with relegating PPC to a secondary arch is > exactly that there are few other candidates for arches that will command > enough interest to force maintainers to pay attention. And that will > mean that Fedora becomes an x86 monoculture over time --- apps won't > work on anything else, and their maintainers won't take any interest in > fixing them, and that provides reason for other maintainers to stop > worrying about portability of their apps, and it's a vicious circle. > > Right now, people are at least compelled to pay some attention to basic > issues like endianness. If the only primary arches are little-endian > then hardware independence is going to disappear. This would be true if PPC as a high visible secondary arch fails. Lets not let that happen. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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