On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 19:15 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 18:25 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> Over-engineering or not, binaries have nothing to do in source rpms,
They do. They are just "data".
Or would you install a raytracer, just because a jpeg being used as
image somewhere is being generated by a raytracer?
> especially not for an open source distribution like Fedora. And since
> they can be build from the source, there is no need for binaries in the
> first place. So to me using the binaries just sounds like
> lazy-engineering to me ;-)
Absolutely not:
You are building a tool chain, you are not building nor supplying the
OS. The situation is not any different from building a native GCC under
Linux: You use the library binaries being provided elsewhere.
Lets be gentlemen and agree to differ on this subject :-)
- Erwin