Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:46:37PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:30:27PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > There are small KDE applications that require most of the KDE dependency
> > chain to be installed, while on the other hand XFree86's build
> > dependency list is (relatively) small.
> 
> would it make sense to examine the queue to see if any packages have
> similar build dependencies and then move them to the top of the queue so
> they build immediately after the current one?
> or to re-sequence the queue to group package with similar build
> dependencies.

That wouldn't necessary help; not all architectures (especially not the
slower ones) build all packages on the same host.

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