RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 17:03:13 UTC 2012


On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/20/2012 12:56 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
>> On 03/20/2012 09:50 AM, drago01 wrote:
>>> I don't know about the details there but that does not sound like
>>> unfixable to be.
>>> I'd even say that fixing that is a prerequisite to allow secondary
>>> archs that run on "slow" hardware to become primary.
>>
>> Please, please, no.  Cross compilation for Fedora cannot and will not
>> ever get a secondary arch to primary.  We're talking man-decades of
>> engineering time to solve all the problems.  Decades.
>
> Yup. I vote we shelve this part of the discussion in the interest of
> ever turning our proposal into something that will be accepted.

OK fair enough (even though I still think that it is the only sane way
to solve the build speed issue).


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