Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:05:55AM +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> > I think most of the Debian m68k porters would prefer to stay with Debian
> > instead of another distro. Just an assumption... ;)
>
> Yes, but I'll say it anyway: Gentoo gives you sufficient flexibility
> <ducks>
>
> Just the fact that they don't really have a "release cycle" makes it
> attractive. And (apparently) it has already been ported to m68k. And it
Only partially so. I once tried it, it wasn't even remotely useful.
[...]
> Well, until aranym gets faster, it may be insane to offer _certain_
> packages. And it seems to me that, when the archive doubles in size, then
> the build farm must double too. But this isn't what killed the etch
> release.
>
> The problem with the debian archive on small machines is the archive
> itself: packages are ./configured --with-3-kinds-of-kitchen-sink, and the
> reverse dependencies can expect that. This blows out the number of deps,
> build time, run-time RAM and disk consumption etc. And, no, that isn't
> what killed the etch release either, but I think it illustrates where the
> aims of the project tend to diverge from the needs of one port.
This sounds mostly true from my POV.
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