Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:45:58AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > There are tools to assist in building optimised binaries already, but im
> > sure people would laugh if someone filed a bug agaisnt a source package
> > because it wasnt compatable with such tools.
>
> Oh, I don't know. I've fixed a bug in one of my packages because it
> wouldn't cross-compile for the sh architecture. I see no reason why
> supporting extra build tools is any more outlandish than that, as long
> as things are clearly enough documented so that I can believe the
> requirements aren't too onerous
Yep. And this part of gentoo (being able to define common custom
./configure options for all packages you build) is actually the only
thing worth noting IMHO.
It would rock if we could support that somehow.
Michael
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<mechanix> anyone from the MIA team around? tbm?
<Ganneff> sounds nice. how long do you have to be MIA to get into that team? :)
<mhp> you need to have a pgp key, I suppose. and no gpg one, and only a bo box
<Np237> yes, but it must be expired
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