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Date:      Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:58:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "Remko Lodder" <remko@elvandar.org>
To:        "Peter Jeremy" <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, doc-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install  chapter.sgml
Message-ID:  <61986.195.64.94.120.1185951526.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070731192031.GO1152@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <200707310651.l6V6pkj3082173@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070731070613.GA1007@gothic.blackend.org> <20070731072956.GB1007@gothic.blackend.org> <20070731180120.GC34617@kobe.laptop> <20070731192031.GO1152@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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On Tue, July 31, 2007 9:20 pm, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2007-Jul-31 21:01:20 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>>It may be sensible to phase out the alpha-specific parts now, or at
>>least make it easy to skip them (since we don't really support alpha in
>>the latest releases).
>
> Alpha is still supported in 6.x.  Since 7.x isn't even out yet,
> deleting the Alpha-specific parts is probably premature.  It might
> be worthwhile adding "not supported beyond 6.x" notes.
>
> --
> Peter Jeremy
>

Hence the "make it easy to skip them" part :-) that will make deletion
much easier later on.

Thanks,
Remko

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Kind regards,

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