XXI century and still using 386 packages...

[Carl Karsten]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:31:41PM +0200, Xan wrote:
> 
>>Perhaps it were good thing to have both types of packages: for every program, 
>>build i386, i486, i586 and i686 packages. Does it suppose so amount of work to 
>>do that?. These subarchitectures are similar, so the packages have to be more 
>>similar. So I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that the maintain of these four 
>>subarch's is much easy than maintain a new arch.
> 
> 
> If we did this, and all our packages got built for each architecture,
> the archive would suddenly be a few hundred gigabytes.
> 

And the install CD would only have less than 1/4 the packages.