On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 04:49:13PM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > 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.
Now this sounds like a better idea! > 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? (That's called a Canadian cross - people actually do build them apparently :) Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
