Athlon Incompatible Packages
Ivan Gyurdiev
ivg2 at cornell.edu
Tue Feb 24 05:09:01 UTC 2004
> This has been repeated many times in the past. The vast majority of
> software have zero or negligible performance benefit from compiling to
> athlon. The compiler flags used to build all packages are already set for
> i686 optimization. Generally it is a very inefficient use of time to
> rebuild packages for your specific arch as it takes far more time to do so
> than any speed benefit you will gain. This being said however, nothing
> stops you from taking the SRPMS and doing what you wish to them. You have
> the freedom of choice with Open Source.
>
> I would suggest against reporting this kind of "problem" to Bugzilla as
> there are already thousands real issues there that are actual problems.
I think you're avoiding my question, which is whether this is a bug or
not. It seems to me though, that this is a bug... and all bugs have to
be fixed, correct? As far as the real issues go, I'll get to those
too... - I have 67 additional packages that will not build on fedora.
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