> On Monday 16 August 2004 22:02, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > - - situation that is (was?) there for ages is that > > toolchain/debhelper maintainers ask embedded developers to use > > binutils-multiarch, and embedded developers don't like this idea for > > different reasons. > > Can you explain what are these different reasons? Disk space is a lousy > excuse with current hard drive pricing, and since the whole point of > dpkg-cross is to avoid compiling in the target, target resources > shouldn't be a problem either. > > If binutils-multiarch is missing some needed arch, It would seem more > usefull to everyone add the support to -multiarch rather that to > everyone to have to compile their own binutils..
I think people may answer for themselves. I may mention following: - binutils-multiarch don't contain cross-assemblers, so cross-binutils are needed anyway. Cross-binutils provide cross-strip; why not using it? - although disk space is no longer a problem, internet traffic cost still is. I don't want to download a huge package and updates that provide no additional functionality for me.
