The biggest contributor to this problem are those submitting i686
packages to the "unsupported" packages. I once enjoyed updating to the
versions of programs ahead of Mandrake's official support of a package.
Now, I'm stuck with things like Mozilla 0.7 because the person who built
and submitted the Mozilla 0.8 package didn't read up on how to make an
i586 binary package.
I'm beginning to think my only hope for staying up to date is to
download .src.rpm's only and use those for updating my system.
Ken Thompson wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 28 March 2001 06:39 pm, you wrote:
> > We've lost sight of one of my original points in similar discussions.
> > If Mandrake is a Pentium optimized distro and NOT a P2+ optimized
> > distro, then i686 RPM's HAVE NO PLACE in the distro. Period. They just
> > shouldn't be there. Never mind us annoyed K6-2 users. What about the
> > kid on his dad's old K5 or Pentium 166 who can't install something
> > because it's i686 compiled?
>
> Exactly my point in my earlier post..
> I hate to think I have to go back to my P-II 400 in order to run certain
> programs, it's much slower than my K6-2 450 (799 bogomips as compaired with
> 901 bogomips)..
> Bogomips may not be a valid measurement of speed, but the 450 does run stuff
> much faster using comparable equipment (RAM Hdd etc).
> I think that if the rpm's are going to be compiled for i686, they should have
> some backward compatibility factored in.
>
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