Hello On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 02:30:29PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op di, 15-03-2005 te 11:25 -0600, schreef John Goerzen: > > As I have been reading the discussions about the SCC proposal for > > etch, it seems that these are the main problems: > > > > 1) Difficulty with, and speed of, buildd systems > > > > 2) Difficulty of syncing testing across all archs given #1 > > > > 3) Difficulty getting security releases out in time, given slow archs > > > > 4) Space constraints on mirrors > > > > I'm throwing out a different idea, and I'm backing it up with code. I > > have thought about it some, maybe there are huge holes, but let's see. > > > > I propose that we split things along these lines: binary+source (B+S) > > archs and source-only (SO) archs. > [...long detailed explanation of how this would work in practice > snipped...] > > I don't think this is a good idea. One of Debian's key selling points is > the fact that you /don't/ have to wait for something to build before > being able to use it. We're not Gentoo[1]; many of our users come to > Debian because they want a community-developed, binary-based > distribution. > > Changing that would change what Debian is, too much. > > Also it wouldn't help on slower architectures. People usually decline > installing NetBSD on m68k (even if that's possible) when it takes two > weeks to make the system useful, simply because everything needs to be > compiled manually.
This is a really a good point. I agree that provide source packages are not really working on slower arches. Regards, // Ola > [1] this is not meant pejoratively; I'm have tried Gentoo in the past > and am quite sure it's a great distribution, but it has different goals. > > -- > EARTH > smog | bricks > AIR -- mud -- FIRE > soda water | tequila > WATER > -- with thanks to fortune > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
