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On Fri, 2021-10-15 at 23:40 +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: |
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> We have already removed many stable packages from hppa, just to reduce the |
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> amount of work. If sparc really becomes a problem I suspect that dropping most |
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> of the multimedia or whatever stuff there could also reduce the amount of work |
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> needed. |
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For the record, I'm not quite sure if dropping large sets of packages to |
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~arch is actually a good idea. While it's fine for some leaf packages, |
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the Python packages have proven to grow new dependencies quite fast. |
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In the end, dropping stable keywords may result in only having to |
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reintroduce them soon afterwards, with lots of extra work. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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