On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:29:15PM +0100, Marco Kuhlmann wrote: > * Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2002-09-12 13:48:43 +0200): > > > Could you tell us why you want prevent free software being > > ported to certain architectures? >
Some software cannot be easily ported to any architectures. E.g. openmosix (which is a special flavor of kernel and a group of userland programs) can run on i386 only (this is true for the openmosix kernel). > Sorry, perhaps I should reformulate my question: How do I tell > porters not to try to build a certain package? (For example, > when the package does not support 64bit architectures.) > You can only list supported architectures instead of 'any'. -- Francesco P. Lovergine