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Re: Future of m68k - Etch and beyond



On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 07:37:15PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > To me it seems clear that compiling all of kde and gnome to run on
> > traditional m68k hardware is a waste of time and cycles. However,
> > how do we carve up the dependency tree so that we can support what
> > we want without killing ourselves? 
> From a tool chain point of view I actually like that a lot is compiled, 
> but of course they don't need to recompiled constantly, e.g. like a weekly 
> kdelibs release shortly before the freeze is of course overkill.

Couldn't agree more. But these days, we can (de)prioritize package build
sequences; I think it might make sense to actually use that on large
packages such as the kde dependency chain and similar.

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