Olivier Thauvin wrote: > I know some poeple start a project to make Mandrake 9.0 specific for athlon. > It is lot of works, and there are allready too many works on i586 to do this, > IMHO. > > But, What do you think to make availlable only more important packages > availlable for athlon or i686, as mandrake do for their kernel. > I think to kernel, glibc (allready tunning by pluggin), database server, gcc, > mplayer... I don't think building bash or fileutils for athlon will change > lot of things. > > I think this works can be made by contributors (rpm --rebuild) who is > interest, this does not break current cooker distro.
If you consider starting this, you should post on pclinuxonline, since quite a few people there have wanted something like this, and at least Tex and cybercfo, and probably more would be willing to help. > > Of course using those packages can be clearly unsupported. > > I think urpmi can deal and choose better package. > > I only put idea here... I want your point of view. > If this idea sound like good for some poeple, maybe we can create a > cooker/athlon and contrib/athlon on mirror. > Maybe MandrakeClub will have space? Tex could probably also host some? Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
