+++ Konstantinos Margaritis [2010-10-09 01:27 +0300]: > IMHO, starting a new port is a much faster process than waiting for multiarch > -it took me just a month to build 60% of the debian archive, even with lots > of > problems and it keeps on compiling.
Of course it is, but this is meaningless comparison; they are not alternative things, they are complimentary things. A new architecture (port) is a new architecture. Multiarch is a way of installing things from more than one arch at a time, and satisfying dependencies between them. And the flavour support I was muttering about is something else again - to make it possible to build, install and use different optimisations/ISA levels within one architecture, rather than having to make a whole new arch for every one. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
