On Wednesday 10 March 2004 15:15, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:21:21PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:25:13PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:44:23AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg > > > > That would be a godsend. It would work, too. It's happening
> > > I think it has some problems, though -- for instance, differences > > > in versions of libc. If we supported building packages from > > What do you mean "building packages from source better"? What > > improvements did you have in mind? > > It is not presently possible to do this in an automated fashion, > largely due to circular build-depends. For instance, X depends on > groff to build, and groff depends on gs, which depends on X. It's > not possible to resolve this in an automated fashion. The very first thing i had to do to have my first running Debian system, was to build the complete distribution after installing dpkg.tar.gz. The very next thing was bootstrapping by cross-building to m68k. Facing the problems, i searched for other peoples experience. Named it: Improving Q of debs through cross bld paradigma. Started Debian cross building mini howto, got stuck :| The only way to go, worth of spending work on it. Such paradigm minimizes problematic builds. Debian shifts _*source code*_ to focus, gains so user visibility of the DFSG enforces source publicly using it not even additionally, as by- product of The Right Thing to do, and respectfully (recloses: #129629). It is really the way to go with many archs and only local debs but as i do see it we can not expect to have that in a single day and so better start freeing our minds for that now. Have a nice day, martin -- Vote for Freedom - vote for debian/dists/non-free. Vote for justice - vote for The Social Contract.
