Christian Schwarz wrote: > > On Thu, 29 May 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote: > > (Don't ask me what the historical reasons are, though. I might start to > > whimper...) > > Sorry, but I couldn't resist :-) What are the reasons?
I don't know. That's why I whimper... > If we make this policy, we should have some real arguments for it! Since > we use "i386" in all our file names and since Debian actually runs on > 386SX and higher I don't see why we should label this "i486". Perhaps. Anybody have any serious arguments? I think the reason we configure gcc as i486 is so it automatically optimizes for the 486; it's a good middle ground. > Does someone know if it makes any troubles if we ommit the (ugly) > "unknown" in "i386-linux"? Not as far as I know. --Galen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .