Re: Re: gcj4 changes : Please Comment

[Daniele Cruciani <crxop@tiscali.it>]

Dan Weber:
> 
> If people are interested in native binaries, they'll do it.

If people are interested in gentoo they'll install gentoo.

Sorry, most of the time I do not have spare space for compiling natively
package, thus I take a Debian binary CD and install what is inside it.

If your are talking about unstable distribuition and how much
time/resource is spent for building -jni packages, it is another matter.
But for a release or for a security fix having system unusable because
compiling is not the gentoo way, it will be a Debian wrong way: figure
that you want a tomcat compiled natively, how much time you have to wait
before having a working system? Also, how many headers package one have
to install for building native interface?

Having native package is not a matter of taste: it reduce memory
requirement and run faster. Most user should install native packages. If
native replication of package is confusing the .so file should be
included in package merging the 2 packages (actually lib packages are
supposed to be binary).

For unstable (do not stress autobuilder and mirrors problem): how does
will be managed the needs for missing headers? Does debconf should just
stop saying "something go wrong, sorry"?

Shortly, I disagree with your idea and with Daniel Bonniot's rationales.

Daniele.