Re: harden distribution
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:52:23AM +0200, David Spreen wrote:
> Hey there,
> maybe supporting people who compile special-needs-binary packages would
> be even better then providing them ourself. What's about a section on the
> debian-project-homepage which coordinates such projects apart from the
> real distribution but supported by us. I mean, when someone opens a
> sourceforge repository for k7-optimized packages he tells us and
> the apt-repository and some coordination (maybe a possibility to
> join this seperate project from there).
>
I think the point is to avoid having to do things like providing binaries
for every type of architecure/processor & security optimizations. But
rather to the compiling "on the fly" as you are installing your selected
packages...
--
Nick Jennings
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