On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 04:47:39PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 03:27:21PM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: > > Please split the qemu-user-static package into multiple separate > > packages, for each target on each architecture. I am a frequent user > > of qemu-user-static for cross-chroots, but I only care about a small > > subset of architectures (specifically armel and powerpc on amd64 hosts > > as well as armel and i386 on powerpc hosts). I'd prefer not to have > > to install and update a 30MB package to achieve these narrow goals. > > I think this shall be wontfix. Apart from some ludicrous corner cases, this > package isn't ever installed on machines where space is a relevant issue. > The cross-chroots alone are many times bigger than the qemu package.
when multi-arch is supported, this gets more interesting, as you could install the appropriate host architecture binary in the chroot itself, and get updates through apt. > Furthermore, the extra work overhead of maintaining many tiny packages > (and introducing new one every time a new target is added) is just not > worth it. by packaging into related collections that are known to work in a cross-chroot (arm, mipsel, powerpc, as far as i know), and another package with all the other variants, i think we can keep the packages to a reasonable number. live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
