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Re: [LUG] Pondering upon Debian

 

Hi Benjamin,

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:56:16PM +0000, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:20:59PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > Personally I would have preferred they drop it from main and replace
> > it with a dummy package that just explains the situation and tells
> > people to download it from upstream.
> 
> Not an option. Last I checked, Mozilla didn't provide amd64 builds of
> Firefox, let alone Sparc, PowerPC (GNU/Linux, not MacOS) and so on. This
> would only be useful for the shrinking majority of people using 32-bit
> Intel-based processors.

Good point!

Cheers,
Andy

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