>>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Marcus> I actually have a longer reply for you, but it is not
Marcus> finished yet, sorry. Just don't rush it. Mine and Gordons
Ok, I will wait for you longer reply.
Marcus> proposal would require some careful thought to get working
Marcus> because of interesting design issues. But the all-* any-*
Marcus> hack (which is all we can hope for currently) requires
Marcus> some careful thought because we must have a smooth
Marcus> transition and remain backward compatible, and many tools
Marcus> have to be changed in different locations. That's because
Marcus> the Architecture notion in Debian was never designed, it
Marcus> evolved in arbitrary directions out of the need to get
Marcus> something working quickly. It's quite simplistic.
I was thinking however there are two major differences since
the last proposals that I have read:
1. build-depends: in now standard.
2. some people have expressed desire to support cross compiling.
So, I have designed a system which supports build-depends, and allows
packages to specify if cross compiling (meaning different hwarch, or
different OS, or both) is OK or not. However, I need to think about it
a bit more before posting it here.
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Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
