* Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031103 18:19]: > What are the real benefits from having build-arch and build-indep? > Are there really so many packages which would benefit from having them?
The real benefit is that it makes it possible to really use Build-Indeps, that most multi-binary-packages need to build arch-independent documentation only once. (Compiling XFree on some small machine for example already hard enough a task, even without the hour needed for installing all the build-dependencies for the documentation...) Not to speak about easier bootstrapping of new arches and such things... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. (Benjamin Franklin)