2009-07-19 13:36:17 Bojan Smojver napisał(a): > On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 08:18 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Since I'm one of those Debian people who wanted the runtime detection > > in the past: No, we can't do that. > > > > The apr (and all other packages) are built by build daemons on various > > different architectures. We, as the packagers of apr, don't control > > those at all. So far, we have specified a minimum version and > > disabled all features that need a newer kernel version, which > > obviously isn't great either. > > > > So: +1 from me on doing runtime detection. > > Sorry, still not convinced. If a particular build system sucks, be that > whichever distribution, then the build system should be fixed. I do not > see why everyone should be penalised at run time for someone else's > bugs.
+1. AFAIK Gentoo has a good concept of build system where packages are built directly on users' systems. -- Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
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