On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
On 12/01/2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote:I realize that the "arch: all" packages would need technical attention before the policy can be realized in practice, and there may be other small technical issues to work out, but I imagine there are solutions to those issues.I guess some packages might be exceptions to such a rule, like compilers or other packages needing bootstrap at some point.
That's a good point - the simplest fair rule I can think of would be to make it "opt-in" by developers who *want* the buildds to rebuild their packages, and mark the package in a way that says "Please throw away my binary packages".
-- Asheesh. -- Pause for storage relocation.