On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:46:11AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
* Removing build dependencies, speeding up the build process
Richard proposes to remove dependencies so that building of a complete distribution can be speed up.
What do you mean here? Remove dependencies that are not actually required? In that case I am all for it but don't actually know what to discuss about that. Remove all dependencies? I guess this is not what you mean because this does not really make sense. Anything else?
* /dev/hd removal: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/9/285
I'd like to see that. It's just that you need a reliable update path from old installations but I guess you thought about that.
* Building distribution for i386/x86-64 with -mtune=generic
Proposal: Build distribution with these flags.
I don't have benchmark numbers for this but if it is faster and does not generally break stuff then this does make sense. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."