On 20/07/13 12:40 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
On 20/07/13 09:53 AM, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
4) Speed It avoid pacman to checks version for each deps. This save a lot of useless computing (parsing and comparing two version)[1]. Even if it's not a big deal on last intel processor, this is noticeable on slow processor (like raspberry pie, alix or soekris).
We can resume these 4 points by saying : It's more simple.
Of course there is drawback for people not updating the whole system. It's unsupported.
Those processors are no more supported than partial updates.
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Connor Behan <connor.behan@gmail.com> wrote: pacman doesn't have Arch Linux-specific stuff but other distros / systems should be running on powerful processors because pacman devs don't care about slower ones?
For some of the other distro's PKGBUILDs, it may very well be advisable to omit ">, <, >=, <=, =". I just don't think this can be used to argue that the i686 and x86_64 PKGBUILDs in Arch should as well.