Secondary architectures and marketing

[Matt Turner]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Oliver Falk <oliver at linux-kernel.at> wrote:
>> Jay Estabrook mentioned to me that he just got xulrunner to compile
>> again, but only with -O0. If this was ever an issue with Gentoo, it's
>> long since fixed.
>
> -O0 is already gone with the latest build (it's -O2 now). We now only have
> --no-relax, passed to the linker.

Which obviously isn't the point.

It took time and effort to do something that was already done
elsewhere. By the way, this is also the exact solution used for some
time on Gentoo.

>> You, Oliver, and Jay are two of the best developers we have, and it
>> seems to me to be such a waste of your time and effort to worry about
>> hunting down a build error and generating RPMs.
>
> Thx a lot for the flowers :-)
>
> Well, hunting down build errors is what we *have to do*. If we wouldn't do
> that, we wouldn't have recent gcc, glibc, xulrunner, firefox, kernel, ...
> And that we produce RPMs, well, we're packaging for Fedora. :-)
>

Again. I think you missed the point here.

>> It's a hard question Oliver, but don't you feel that it might be better
>> for the architecture to join up efforts on one distribution?
>
> Sure. Fedora :-P

See above for a response...

Please justify Fedora/Alpha.

Thanks,

Matt