On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:21:49 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:35:32AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > It is widely perceived that Gentoo has a huge problem with slacker | > archs cluttering up the tree and making maintainers' work harder. | > Clearly, something needs to be done about this. | > | > I think the first step is to establish what all the problem | > architectures are. We all know that mips is by far the worst | > offender, but by how much? Rather than speculating wildly, I | > decided to make use of adjutrix and wc to find out. So, here we | > have a table showing just how much mips is a slacker arch: | | Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
Exactly my point. | > As expected, supporting minority archs is leading to tree-wide bloat | > and huge initial rsync times for users. Clearly something has to be | > done to protect Gentoo from those useless minority archs! I mean, | > how many users do we *really* have using amd64 or x86? | | Actually digging into the data rather then doing the "lies, damn | lies, and statistics" approach shows a pattern of mips having a large | % of their stable packages lagging the others. Which isn't at all relevant when it comes to the question of causing tree bloat. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
