On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 05:18:15PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: >... > There was also a suggestion to mark non-for-us or stop building large > packages that may not be that useful in the armel architecture, such > LibreOffice, possibly some desktops, etc.. since armel is mostly meant > for embedded and headless devices (may be some with small > screen/display). >...
This doesn't strike me as coming from people who have an overview of actual issues - it would not solve any problem but would add new problems. armel does not have any buildd speed issues. It is REALLY preferable to attempt to build as much as possible even on the most obscure ports architectures, since working around something not being available is manual work. But e.g. building libflac needs nearly the complete Haskell ecosystem. The build dependencies of something like git require subversion and Qt and Java and tons of other stuff. You can workaround such issues, but that is manual work and we are not gaining anything. > Regards cu Adrian
