Re: [Cooker] building source rpms on install.

[Mark Hillary]

Oh but it would be so much fun.

Mark Hillary

Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:

> Mark Hillary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Right I don't pretent to know that much about make a distro or anything. But
> > wouldn't it nice if all of the packages on the mandrake installation disk where
> > source rmps. Then when you install, the installer would read what your sytem was
> > and then would commplie the source accourdingly using. This would mean that the
> > packages would be custom built for each system, and then you would only need to
> > have one distro version.
>
> and spend 5 days to install an operating sytem ? Even with the big cluster
> of the mdksoft develomement division it take a *lot* to recompile the
> distribution.
>
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