On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 01:46:17AM +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit Bas Zoetekouw dies 15/03/2005 hora 10:37: > > I find it a bit hard to believe that Debian isn't able to support 11 > > architectures while for example FreeBSD and NetBSD seem to manage > > fine. > > - FreeBSD: 6 ports, 12646 packages > - Debian: 11 ports, 9157 packages (sarge) [17593 in sid] > - NetBSD: 55 ports, 5300 packages > > I think that Debian stands quite well the comparison... And maybe SCC > will enable Debian to ``support'' many more architectures, and in a > smooth way, instead of a somewhat all-or-nothing.
note that netbsd ports are different from debian or linux kernel ports. they count a port for basically every single piece of hardware while we count one for each user-level incompatible API, which could be half a dozend netbsd ports each. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]