Re: [Cooker] 9.2 wishlist: urpmi --optimise

[Per Øyvind Karlsen]

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On Wednesday 19 March 2003 17:26, Buchan Milne wrote:
> w9ya wrote:
> > Perhaps Mandrake can/would compile the whole thing (distro) -mcpu i686
>
> -02
>
> > instead of -march ???. That way you can ..."have your cake and eat it
>
> too."
>
> > Also, for those that just have to have more than what that offers
>
> (which is
>
> > little as it turns out , according to the gcc folks), then have the build
> > process passed a variable for compilation from a "rc" file in etc, which
> > itself can be changed easily enough. Many distros are doing this now.
>
> Or you can just make your own ~/.rpmmacros file and do what you like, or
> use a target option passed to rpm.
>
> The problem isn't rebuilding a package. The problem is rebuilding many
> packages, and only the ones required, with fetching them remotely if
> necessary (which the rpm rebuilder doesn't do).
>
> Buchan

why are everyone so obsessed about "optimizing" their packages? in most cases 
it only gives marginal perfomance increase and often introduces weird bugs 
and performance penalties..

here's a little example:
http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=2472&lang=en


anyways, other than that you could aways use rpm-rebuilder and change optflags 
in  ~/.rpmmacros...

but in most cases it's just not worth it..
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Regards,
Per Øyvind Karlsen
Sintrax Solutions
http://www.sintrax.net - +47 41681061
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