On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, David Starner wrote: > Is it necessary? That's 56 packages (8 architectures x 7), a lot > of disk space on mirrors. We currently have two in the archive. > Why create 53 packages if no one's interested in them? I have no > objections to the creation of a new package if someone's interested, > but I'd prefer not to see many large packages created if no one's going > to use them.
hm, perhaps you're right. It does sum up to a lot of disk space. A much more usable idea that springs to mind is to have a base source package that requests <host> and <target> platforms when building and then creates the binary package that provides the cross-compiler requested. hm, maybe even host should be auto-configured (actually it makes sense, otherwise it would mean making a cross-compiler using a cross-compiler!), and only ask for the target platform. What do you think? Konstantinos Margaritis
