Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 06:41 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 22:41 +0200, Mario Lang wrote: >> > You are not really following what I am trying to get across. Cross >> > compilation >> > isn't the issue. The issue is that something as generic as i386 (or i686 >> > for >> > rpm based distros IIRC) actually targets a lot of different types of >> > hardware. >> > It can run on pretty old pentium based CPUs, but also modern >> > systems. A binary distributor has no way of knowing which >> > CPU is going to be used, ... >> >> The distributor has one tool at his disposal, the package-manager. This >> will know where it lives and could (potentially) choose the right >> package. > > The package manager does not choose the "right package". There is no > "right package". The packager does not know on which computer the > software will be running and can't pre-optimize for something that is an > unknown at compile or packaging time. The software has to automagically > optimize itself for the processor it is running on when it starts.
Well said. > That is the way this is done in many other audio oriented software > packages (Jack, Ardour, etc). +1 -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/> _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
