On Aug 25 2002, Martin Costabel wrote:
> The compiling can easily take a day or two. Just wait until you
> install bundle-kde ;-) That took me 3 days on a G4/733MHz which is
> probably twice as fast as your iBook.
Sincerely, I don't understand why some of the distributions of
the fink project aren't available in binary form, especially
due to the fact that some packages take a lot of time to
compile, as the post above confirms.
For those that need newer programs available on unstable and
have only 128MB of RAM, life is quite difficult.
So, what is the reason for the project not making more
packages available? Lack of horsepower for compiling the
packages? Lack of space for hosting the packages?
I think that the former problem could easily be solved with a
build daemon, similar to what Debian uses, with some host
machines doing the hard work.
OTOH, another option for that would be to make a binary
repository (possibly with unofficial status) of
user-contributed (compiled) packages in form of an
apt-get'able source.
It would also make using fink a much more feasible option for
some users like me, with limited resources.
Honestly, this is the biggest problem I see with fink.
[]s, Roger...
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