Subject: Re: Crosscompiling
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 12/28/1999 09:32:06
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Tim Rightnour wrote:
> On 28-Dec-99 Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > I agree distribution flexibility is good (only getting the bits you need).
> > I'm just seriously questioning why we would want to not use the package
> > system to do it.
>
> Perhaps if the proposal to replace the sets with a fine grained pkg system-like
> install ever comes to fruitition.. alot of this will become moot.
Definitly. If we had install system in place, I would not be raising these
objections. :-)
> While I agree it should live in pkgsrc.. the one danger of this is that
> binaries might not get build in time for release.. that would be unfortunate.
How so?
Take care,
Bill