On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 22:14 +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote:

> Er, but why is this a problem? Does it matter that the package will
> install different files on x86 than on mips? Or am I just overlooking
> the point?

In general, there is no obvious technical reason against individual
installs differing from one another, however from a support and QA point
of view it makes it a much less trivial issue. At the end of the day,
when it comes to USE=minimal no-one can fully confirm what does, and
does not exist (can cause breakages may I add) when it comes to
supporting a bug, and also we can't promise it wont destroy an arch tree
which you need. I'm thinking obscure (or not quite so) architecture.
Pegasos, Sun, Sparc, SH, arm, etc.

Although Kbuild is more than capable of functioning with only the
required arch tree, what happens when it comes to things like
cross-compile, not just of the sources but of anything else which might
use them later on? ipw2200? nvidia? alsa-drivers?

Just a bit of a worry to me, and not something I would really like to
endorse.

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