Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > On the other hand the savings can be huge. Think about how many > packages install latex and fonts and generate the documentation > needlessly during build. Installing and purging latex as well as all > the initex runs and font generation takes up a awfull lot of time
I think most packages build their documentation or other architecture-independent parts as part of a general make/make install process, so it's not possible to create useful separate build-arch and build-indep targets. Looking at the archive right now, there are only 129 source packages (in testing) that are not Architecture: all and declare Build-Depends-Indep (and quite a few of those are obviously wrong). So it seems to be a limited problem. However, if your concern is mostly to reduce installation time of documentation tools, then the current Build-Depends/Build-Depends-Indep setup seems to work quite well. I don't see where Build-Depends-Arch would fit in there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
