On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 10:54:42AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > They are very big, they have very big build times, and they are in general
> > a burden for QA.
> I don't see any QA burden.
 
packages with long build times *can* very well be a burden on QA and other
things, like testing migration tests and reproducible builds tests, as
well as on the humans maintaining those systems. they also use up non-endless
resources.

generally the burden is less the more useful those packages are.


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