On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:21:21PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:25:13PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:44:23AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > That would be a godsend. It would work, too. It's happening already: > > > a lot of people run woody as "the stable core" and backports.org > > > as "the rest", so the idea certainly has merit. > > > > I think it has some problems, though -- for instance, differences in > > versions of libc. If we supported building packages from source better > > (which I really think we should), this instantly becomes more practical. > > What do you mean "building packages from source better"? What > improvements did you have in mind?
It is not presently possible to do this in an automated fashion, largely due to circular build-depends. For instance, X depends on groff to build, and groff depends on gs, which depends on X. It's not possible to resolve this in an automated fashion. -- John
