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On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 22:14 +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote: |
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> Er, but why is this a problem? Does it matter that the package will |
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> install different files on x86 than on mips? Or am I just overlooking |
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> the point? |
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In general, there is no obvious technical reason against individual |
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installs differing from one another, however from a support and QA point |
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of view it makes it a much less trivial issue. At the end of the day, |
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when it comes to USE=minimal no-one can fully confirm what does, and |
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does not exist (can cause breakages may I add) when it comes to |
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supporting a bug, and also we can't promise it wont destroy an arch tree |
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which you need. I'm thinking obscure (or not quite so) architecture. |
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Pegasos, Sun, Sparc, SH, arm, etc. |
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Although Kbuild is more than capable of functioning with only the |
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required arch tree, what happens when it comes to things like |
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cross-compile, not just of the sources but of anything else which might |
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use them later on? ipw2200? nvidia? alsa-drivers? |
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Just a bit of a worry to me, and not something I would really like to |
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endorse. |
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