On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Robby Workman <ro...@rlworkman.net> wrote: > On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:09:33 -0700 (PDT) > Stuart Winter <mo...@slackware.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi >> >> I am thinking about removing the QEMU packages from -current. >> I only added these years ago because my real ARM hardware died and I >> needed a stop gap. >> >> The thing is that QEMU is *so slow* that I cannot imagine it being >> useful at all, apart from a 10 minute novelty for x86 users. >> It takes time to test whether the installation works, and takes time >> to build the Versatile kernel. >> >> Is anybody going to miss it if I drop the packages and install docs? > > > Well... I would, since I often build packages in a qemu VM (I'm > usually in no hurry, so time isn't a problem). However, I can > adjust :-) > > -RW
Yeah, I'd miss it too... I still use qemu with its snapshot feature to build packages on a "clean" installation. My real ARM hardware has too many packages installed to consider it a clean installation. -- Niels Horn _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack