Re: [Cooker] Proposal to remove i586 from "Mini" cd.

[Fabrice Facorat]

2008/3/16, Pascal Terjan <pterjan@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:30 PM, R James <upsnag2@gmail.com> wrote:
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>  > 2008/3/16 Fabrice Facorat <fabrice.facorat@gmail.com>:
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>  > > indeed. I'd rather have mini as 32bits only as it will also run on x86-64
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>  > Did anyone actually read my first message?
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>  > If CD1 of the i586 3 CD set can *also* function as a 32-bit mini, why
>  >  would we need a dual-arch mini?
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>  > Under my proposal, those who only want a minimal i586 installation
>  > need only download CD1.
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> And what would be the point of doing that for i586 and not for x86_64 ?
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indeed. What should x86-64 users, the ones with the biggest computers
should have a dedicated mini CD, whereas the x86 which could have some
very old and small config will be using normal CD ?

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