On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:02:07AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:12:13AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > I think we do need to have a discussion about ports that don't build the > > full archive, but otherwise can make a stable release and get security > > support. Certainly m68k and likely arm users won't be running all the > > latest bloatware and thus don't need to be building it (how long would > > it take to load openoffice under kde on my m68k mac or even the fastest > > ataris?). But drawing that line can be tricky because of dependencies. > > I don't think anyone who really cares about the issue has come up with a > > good way to frame the discussion or draw those lines yet. > > I agree that subsetting the archive seems like the most sensible solution > for m68k, but all previous attempts have run aground on the interdependency > problem. Perhaps you could suggest a few guidelines you would like to see > used, as a starting point for such a discussion? I certainly have some ideas. Do we have any good tools for evaluating depends on such a scale? This is something I've only begun to look at so I'm not familiar with the scope of the problem yet. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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