On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 04:27:57PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org> writes: > > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:18:50PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > > > Pray to god that testing and unstable stop diverging so much? :) > > > > FYI, this is the size of all the binaries belonging to the given > > architecture, in the specifies suites: > > > testing+testing-proposed-updates: > > [resorted by size] > > architecture | size > > --------------+------------ > > i386 | 3378532922 > > ia64 | 3394287226 > > all | 3113135590 > > alpha | 3050200486 > > powerpc | 2996108486 > > hppa | 2850080658 > > sparc | 2740423638 > > s390 | 2713124396 > > arm | 2667813072 > > m68k | 2571810596 > > mips | 2569942598 > > mipsel | 2531507858 > And people allways say that 64 Bit archs need much bigger executables. > Somehow alpha saves 328MB compared to i386 and a suggested 30-50% size > increase on binaries would mean a lot of packages are not available on > alpha, which isn't true. It probably achieves this through the cunning, space-saving strategy of rendering poorly written software un-buildable on 64-bit architectures. ;) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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