On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:05:55AM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > I think most of the Debian m68k porters would prefer to stay with Debian > > instead of another distro. Just an assumption... ;) > > Yes, but I'll say it anyway: Gentoo gives you sufficient flexibility > <ducks> > > Just the fact that they don't really have a "release cycle" makes it > attractive. And (apparently) it has already been ported to m68k. And it
Only partially so. I once tried it, it wasn't even remotely useful. [...] > Well, until aranym gets faster, it may be insane to offer _certain_ > packages. And it seems to me that, when the archive doubles in size, then > the build farm must double too. But this isn't what killed the etch > release. > > The problem with the debian archive on small machines is the archive > itself: packages are ./configured --with-3-kinds-of-kitchen-sink, and the > reverse dependencies can expect that. This blows out the number of deps, > build time, run-time RAM and disk consumption etc. And, no, that isn't > what killed the etch release either, but I think it illustrates where the > aims of the project tend to diverge from the needs of one port. This sounds mostly true from my POV. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
