On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Michael J. McGillick wrote:
> Afternoon Hatters:
>
> This is just an informal poll to see if there is an interest in doing
> something like this. I'm interested in taking a Red Hat distribution, and
> recompiling it to all i686 RPMs. Further, I would like to investigate the
> possibility of changing a few things that the Red Hat install does by
> default. I also would like to come up with some standards on the way that
> RPMs are built, so that if the average user downloads a SRPM and wants to
> rebuild it on their "stock" Red Hat system, it will rebuild with no
> errors.
>
> What I'm looking for is people who might be interested in working on a
> project like this. I'm not looking to "create a whole new
> distribution" or anything like that. Instead, if enough people were
> interested, and we could show that these changes are possible, we might be
> able to work directly with Red Hat to implement these things.
>
> I have plenty of server space that I would be willing to donate to this
> project, and would be happy to help out where I could. Again, I'm looking
> to build on the strength of the Red Hat distribution, not reinvent the
> wheel.
In my opinion a waste of time.. The 5 % gain is not worth the complete
recompile, and it will give all kinds of weard problems...
>
> - Mike
Igmar
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