Re: RE : some thoughts on gcc

["h.godavari" <h.godavari@xxxxxxx>]

Bigler Stéphane wrote:

Dear Alexander and list,

a) Using octave on slitaz is a really nice. As I understood, octave needs fortran support. So please do not remove it. It would be nice to consider that some users may find it useful.
b) Running slitaz on i486 machines is so great. I do not really catch the point in removing this feature. Please consider that not all Slitaz users can afford buying last technology computer. When reading the forum, it is obvious to me that some (maybe many) Slitaz users run slitaz on (very) old technology.

  

Its not a always a question of  affordability, rather need for power. What is the point of all the power of multi-cores & giga bytes of memory if all one does is read email, write an occassional letter and may be look at a power point presentation or gran kid's pictures? The bulk of the population does not use the computer to its capacity. Don't get me wrong, there are  people who need the power By all means they should have it. I am talking about average joe-sixpack..

On the other hand even here, in Canada, there are a lot of people who cannot afford  to buy one or need an extra one to do some small chore.(Every time an old pentium II is offered on our FreeCycle Org, 30+ people line up asking for it).

I agree it takes a lot more effort to  write tight code and fit things into small  spaces. Small is beautiful :-)

Regards
hg

I hope that make sense.
Cheers
Stephane
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De : Listengine [listengine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] de la part de Alexander Medvedev [devl547@xxxxxxxxx]
Date d'envoi : mardi, 28. septembre 2010 09:50
À : slitaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Objet : Re: some thoughts on gcc

  

If you create a gcc-lite package, add the following line in receipt:
TAZBB_NO_INSTALL="because this will break objc and fortran support"
    

ok, thanks

  

Maybe we should add multilib support (i486, i686, x64 and glibc, uclibc) ?
    

Multilib = fail. More packages to track, more compatibility problems to track.

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