XXI century and still using 386 packages...

[Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy]

Well, if only apt-build was working properly, one could always tell
people who ask for -march=athlon-xp or -O3 -ffast-math
-fomit-frame-pointer and other stuff to go and apt-build themselves :)

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 22:50 +1000, 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.