Requirements Final Draft Attempt #2 :-/

Valentin Nechayev netch at lucky.net
Thu Jul 31 02:08:11 PDT 2003


 Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 14:19:08, wollman wrote about "Requirements Final Draft Attempt #2 :-/": 

> I think that this would be more helpful if sites were categorized
> along a different axis: architecture.  It doesn't make sense to
> require every primary mirror site everywhere in the world to carry
> every architecture.  Few people outside of Japan, for example, have
> need of PC98 releases.  Other places may want to cut out Alpha or
> sparc64 bits if those distributions are very infrequently downloaded.

Agreed. Architectures other than i386 are used rarely in order of a few
magnitudes.


-netch-


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