Well, just because I'm not very knowledgeable about GNU/Linux and the Debian project makes my E-mail seem like I was trolling?
To this day, I've still been teaching myself Linux for a couple years and I'm still distro hopping. Give someone a break. Anyway, I didn't mean to derail because I know this is about the lack of MIPS maintainers, but I don't know if anyone from Qi really wants do do anything about it. On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:56 PM, kyak <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm really suprised that this e-mail recevied such versatile answers, > considering that every sentence of that message is a mixture of negativity > and incompetence or just trolling. > > > On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, R Paxton wrote: > > Is this really true? >> Debian has been nothing but problems for me over time. APT is so complex >> that I can't even set my own compiler flags for my software like CCFLAGS >> and >> USE flags (for Gentoo) unless I use something like my own local repo with >> deb package source files. I might just have to consider switching all of >> my >> systems to Gentoo/FreeBSD if Debian still cannot get their policies and >> issues straightened out. >> >> They've even removed Virtualbox from the free repo because it's compiled >> with a proprietary compiler. And Wine nowadays does not even work right >> for >> me under Debian. How dumb is that? Because of changes like these that the >> Debian folks make, it makes the entire system more and more unstable every >> time. >> >> I'm not saying anyone should stay away from Debian if they drop MIPS, but >> at >> least try the Portage and Ports system too in Gentoo and FreeBSD before >> deciding that Debian has "simply the best package manager". Certainly, >> Debian does not have some of the best maintainers. >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Friday 4. October 2013 06.01.41 Rafael Ignacio Zurita wrote: >> > >> > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 05:17:26AM +0200, David Kuehling >> wrote: >> > > >> > > just to let you know that given the very limited amount of people >> who >> > > seem to be available for MIPS-related porting and fixing, Debian >> may not >> > > include architecture MIPS as an official release architecture for >> Debian >> > > Jessie: >> > >> > What is exactly people available for MIPS-related porting? >> >> Yes, some specifics would be good about what the issues are (without >> having to >> read the whole thread). The summary table is amusing: hurd-i386 comes >> out >> ahead; perhaps we should get hurd-mipsel running on the Ben. ;-) >> >> I've done Debian packaging but haven't managed to graduate to DD >> status, but >> I'd probably lend my effort to helping out if the alternative was no >> more >> Debian on MIPS and thus no more Debian on devices like the Ben. >> >> Paul >> >> P.S. I'm only half-joking about the Hurd on the Ben. With the complete >> driver >> support for Linux, I wonder if it would be feasible to fully support >> the Hurd >> on the Ben as well. >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Qi Hardware Discussion List >> Mail to list (members only): >> [email protected]**hardware.com<[email protected]> >> Subscribe or Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.en.qi-hardware.**com/mailman/listinfo/**discussion<http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion> >> >> >> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): > [email protected]**hardware.com<[email protected]> > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.** > com/mailman/listinfo/**discussion<http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion> >
_______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
