Re: gcj4 changes : Please Comment

[Jerry Haltom <wasabi@larvalstage.net>]

It is important to remember that this takes a LONG TIME. For the whole
of Eclipse for instance, it can take near 20 on a 2GHz machine. That
isn't counting Eclipse's dependencies, which are likely to take MUCH
longer.



On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 17:02 +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote:
>Dan Weber wrote:
>> 
>> The libraries should be built on the user's machine.  This can be done 
>> via the postinst, and by and a debconf option to turn it off or on.  It 
>> maybe a good idea to come up with a debconf script to automatically add 
>> it to your postinst.
>> 
>> Dan
>
>I tend to agree. If we manage to handle this transparently on the user 
>machine, we will:
>
>  1) reduce the stress on the autobuilders and the mirrors
>  2) avoid confusing users with -native replicates of java packages.
>
>Daniel
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