On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 10:48:48AM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > "Christopher W. Curtis" <ccurtis@aet-usa.com> writes: > > > Now, the biggest complaint is obviously resource constraints. > > Indeed. > > > Maybe it's just not practical for every package to be compiled for a > > 386 and for an Intel Pentium and an AMD Athlon and an Intel > > Pentium-III, etc. > > Not only does it cost CPU time somewhere, but it also adds about 500 > MB of new binaries (see <URL:http://www.debian.org/mirror/size>). > If this is done for every i386-variant under the sun (i486, P1, > PPro, P2, P3, K6, K7) that's 3.5 Gigs more. Not something every mirror > will take likely. And there are different PowerPCs as well ... > > If someone is burning to contribute code to the issue, I think a most > valuable addition would be means to more easily go directly from > source. That is, I'd like to do > > apt-get --source upgrade > > and all updated packages' sources would get downloaded, built, and > installed automatically. That would give the optimization-freaks > something to whet their CPUs on. > I like this idea, anyone know the progress of source packages and implemented build-depends? Also, along with build-essential, how hard would it be to add a conffile somewhere that I can put my CFLAGS, etc and preferred compiler settings? Frank aka Myth
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