-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 09 August 2003 21:00, Austin wrote: > > If you forget about the "optimisation" arguments, and think about the > > time-saving and customisation aspects, I think a tool like Portage for > > rpm/urpmi would be useful. Just think, we may never see complaints > > about > > cooker packages not working on a stable release again! > > It would be an amazing feature. The only two tricky parts would be: > 1. making it 'intelligent' enough to only upgrade the necessary > libraries, and not break other packages depending on them > 2. extra work for already over-taxed packagers to keep things > rebuilding on older/stable versions I cannot see how this would solve the problem with packages unable to build on older releases, you still have to satisfy those new dependencies, maybe you could try to cut stuff down a little, and only compile in features you want yourself, not linking against libraries you don't need etc... but for what? also think of the nightmare when it comes to bug reporting/solving if everyone were to use different compile options, flags etc. and if this is for making it easier for user joe to use new versions of packages on an old release, I just don't think he's interested in spending a day compiling everything needed for the latest kde.. - -- Regards, Per �yvind Karlsen Sintrax Solutions http://www.sintrax.net - +47 41681061 - -------------------------------------------- GPG Key: http://sintrax.net/~hawkeye/key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
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