On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 07:42:31AM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > (1) It imposes upon us the need to use a separate repository, which is > > based on the false assumption that we will be rebuilding a substantial > > proportion of all Fedora packages, like some sort of secondary > > architecture. > > > > In reality this is not the case - we only wish to rebuild a few common > > libraries. Secondary architectures rebuild every package, including > > applications, which we have no intention of doing even if it were > > possible (which it isn't). > > You can't make any assurances that additional community members will > not want additional libraries nor applications to be included. You > have a very narrow view as to what you need right now with regard to a > development environment for a specific task. It doesn't take much to > realize, even from the infrastructure ticket that the libraries > requested can mushroom into something larger than the set of libraries > you are currently envisioning. But even a larger set of libraries isn't the whole of Fedora. Libraries constitute only 1 in 5 Fedora packages. And not all libraries can be ported to Windows, by any means. Cross-compiling is not a mechanical task and requires many upstream changes. At the moment we have, through a large effort, cross compiled 27 libraries, and that includes big ones like Gtk and all its dependencies. 27 libraries, or even 27 x small 'n' libraries is NOT a secondary architecture and does not need a separate repository. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
