On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 06:56:57PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > > It must said that comparing Gentoo with Debian in this > > regard is unfair as they are not like for like, being > > source against binary package. That said some things > > (X 4.2 springs to mind) take far too long to make it > > to testing. > Could you run X 4.2 in, say, s390 that date? FYI, X is supported in 11 > archs in Debian, a lot more than upstream supports.
So, debian is coming the netbsd of Linuxes.. Sure a novel goal to support rare hardware, but why does ot have to come at the expense of commodity hardware owners? even worse, that date you could have a working X (4.1) in s390 but not in a x86 laptop.. or a radeon desktop (not sure, but if I remeber correct, 8500 support came in 4.2). > If you want to compile things because that makes fun to you, you can do. > Some people in Debian does that from time to time and fills FTBFS bugs > on packages. Perhaps you could help them. I would believe that most packages build fine from source. However, trying to push yuor own compiler optimisations can be rather hard.. DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is still just a recommondation in the options, and doesn't support aggressive optimisations.. -- Riku Voipio | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | kirkkonummentie 33 | +358 40 8476974 --+-- 02140 Espoo | | Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. |
