Sven LUTHER wrote: > Well, what about the coq for example, which is 7 MB package (on i386, so > maybe it is bigger for other arches) and 20MB installed. I guess it's on the line. > There is also the buildd resources, especially on the slower > arches. I guess it takes much time to build coq on m68k for example, > while i could have built the exact same executable on my i386 box. So build all the bytecode architectures on your i386 box. :-) It actually is doable. > > If you really wanted to solve this one right, you could think about > > implementing Marcus Brinkman's idea that lets packages depend on their > > architecture(s). That's nice because it solves the general problem you > > are running into: That of arch "all" packages that are really only > > useful on a subset of architectures. > > Mmm, do you have a pointer to were i can look more at this ideas. I haven't been able to dig it up easily. -- see shy jo
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