On 20/07/13 12:40 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Connor Behan <connor.be...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On 20/07/13 09:53 AM, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: >>> 4) Speed >>> It avoid pacman to checks version for each deps. This save a lot of >>> useless computing (parsing and comparing two version)[1]. >>> Even if it's not a big deal on last intel processor, this is >>> noticeable on slow processor (like raspberry pie, alix or soekris). >>> >>> We can resume these 4 points by saying : It's more simple. >>> >>> Of course there is drawback for people not updating the whole system. >>> It's unsupported. >>> >> Those processors are no more supported than partial updates. > pacman doesn't have Arch Linux-specific stuff but other distros / > systems should be running on powerful processors because pacman devs > don't care about slower ones?
For some of the other distro's PKGBUILDs, it may very well be advisable to omit ">, <, >=, <=, =". I just don't think this can be used to argue that the i686 and x86_64 PKGBUILDs in Arch should as well.
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