Re: make -j in Debian packages
Quoting Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>:
> Since most packages currently
> do not do this, some of our infrastructure (in casu, buildd machines)
> assume this is not being done. Doing it anyway then might upset those
> machines -- not just on m68k; when there was talk of a 6-way SPARC
> buildd machine being set up, I understand that the plan there was to run
> multiple instances of the buildd software on that machine, rather than
> having parallel builds run[1]. Having five or six build processes all do
> 'make -j 4' might grind even the most powerful of machines to a halt.
[overly nagging]
When the talk about the hijacking of Bacula was up, the consensus was
'who cares about the m68k? If they can't keep up, get more machines'.
I didn't like it then, and I don't like it any more now... And i don't
even HAVE a m68k machine any more!
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[See http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html for more about this]
[Or http://www.europarl.eu.int/tempcom/echelon/pdf/rapport_echelon_en.pdf]
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