From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 1 13:11:58 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D8BC0B; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:11:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A942324A; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:11:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by smtp-int.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBE6C6EB; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 431929488; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 15:11:56 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk Subject: Re: considering i386 as a tier 1 architecture References: <86wqsmpmb0.fsf@ds4.des.no> Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:11:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Mehmet Erol Sanliturk's message of "Mon, 1 Apr 2013 04:08:35 -0700") Message-ID: <86li92pf8k.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Eitan Adler , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Hackers X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:11:59 -0000 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk writes: > Since I am not a developer or user of such a system , I can not say > whether 25000 packages are necessary for them or not. Reducing any > amount of work load which its outcome is not directly used is a > contribution to the FreeBSD project by diverting such efforts to other > man power or resources required areas. You're assuming that maintaining i386 as a tier 1 platform really *does* add significantly to our workload. You should also check your calendar :) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no