On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:28:02PM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote: > Unless you care about performace. Which is the main reason to use different > packages for each CPU type.
I compile my own kernels, and have for a long time. But it's a pain to go through all the poorly-documented options and takes quite a while to select those options and actually build a kernel. And then there's the times I have to go back and recompile because I left out my mouse drivers, or ide-scsi, or vfat. It's entirely rational to want to pick up the 10% improvement from hitting the right button in dselect and not worry about the 20% from recompiling the kernel. For a comparison: Remember the libc-i686 packages? I had them installed when they were available. I can compile my own libc - it probably wouldn't take more than 10 minutes to find the right switch to frob, and then compiling time. But I haven't, even for a speed-up that maybe as big as what the kernel will give you, and I would reckon that most of the other people that had the libc-i[56]86 packages installed haven't either. It's analogous to the kernel problem. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org (K) 3141 All Rights Reversed