On 09/04/2012 12:17 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:
Why is Fedora maintaining a whole separate set of packages for the
MinGW spin of builds when they could be all built from the same
packages? Then all packages would be updated with a single effort, and
they would share patchsets, etc. Since building is done out of stream
anyway, at least for MinGW packages, then why do we need to maintain a
completely parallel set of packages?
Pick one:
- Not all Fedora software can be cross-compiled.
- Not all maintainers would be interested in adding or maintaining
mingw- packages to their spec.
- No other distribution does what you describe, probably for the reasons
above.
The same could be said of Fedora ARM. Unfortunately we do not live in a
perfect world. I am satisfied with the process that we have, and one day
we may be able to unify packages, but that day is not today.
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