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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:07:48 +0300
From:      Valentin Nechayev <netch@lucky.net>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
Subject:   Re: Requirements Final Draft Attempt #2 :-/
Message-ID:  <20030731090748.GM43099@lucky.net>
In-Reply-To: <200307301819.h6UIJ8gw040301@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
References:  <20030729052619.GA16116@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <200307301819.h6UIJ8gw040301@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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 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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