Re: [gentoo-releng] x86 GRP

[Benjamin Judas]

This would make sense to me, however we would have to prepare for a lot of
complaints about this decision from our users. What about an other
decision? If a user wants to put up a box fast, what does he really need?
I think the packages mostly needed are KDE and OpenOffice. So why not
simply provide a much smaller GRP-set for the fast archs and keep the
complete set for the slower ones?

Regards,
   Benni

>
>> Ok, on to the real issue. Do we really need to build GRP for all
>> subarches of x86? I am pondering nixing all of the subarches except x86
>> and i686. Doing so would save infra space on the mirrors and beejay some
>> build time ;) No other arch offers all of their subarches, so why does
>> x86? If there are no compelling reasons to not drop the other subarches,
>> I will bring this up before #-dev and try to get some user input. Thanks
>> in advance for your commentary ;)
>
> If I may pipe in here -- I also see no need for *all* the sub-arches we
> offer.  So I'm glad you're thinking of this route -- I think it might be
> still ok to offer x86, 486, 586 and 686.  Honestly, 686 is the sub-arch
> that least needs GRP -- provided we keep in mind that GRP's sole raison
> d'etre is fast install.  The slower sub-arches are what need the boost
> more than p4, ath-xp, ath-mp, p3, and god knows what else we have on the
> mirrors.
>
> Thanks,
>
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