Athlon Incompatible Packages

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 02:30:16PM -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> Is there any reason why those packages restrict arch to 386 and are not 
> compatible with athlon, or is that a bug? I'd like to be able to rebuild 
> them. Would you like me to file a bugzilla on each one?
> 
Seems to me that this is not a bug, but an intentional decision.  Either
way, outside of the fact that any efficiencies you got from the recompile
would probably never make up the number of CPU cycles required for the
build, you obviously have a special interest, which is outside of the
intended purpose of said SRPMS.  That is great, just add the arch to the
spec file, and rebuild.  IF for some reason they wont build, it may merit
further discussion, but if all we are talking about is a spec file change,
it would take you much less time to make the change, than it would to file
the bug, and since it is fairly unlikely that most users would be
interested in doing such a rebuild themselves, it is work that would not be
repeated too often.  Developers can focus on things which have more of an
impact to users.

Justin