On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 07:54:03AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> 
> >> So there are many edits that needed to be done in lots of
> >> Kconfig and Makefiles if one selectively pulls or omits certain
> >> sub-directories.
> >
> > Indeed, I ran across the same thing a while back. Would be *really* nice to
> > fix, if only so some poor sod over a modem can download a smaller tarball,
> > or save some diskspace.
> 
>  I have seven source trees on disk right now.  Getting rid off all
> the archs but i386 would not only save tons of space, it would also
> make 'grep -r' go faster and stop spewing irrelevant hits for archs
> that I couldn't care less about.
> 
> 
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>  Chuck
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I agree with you. Making different trees for different archs will make the tarball much smaller. Usually people only use one architecture and the other code lies waste. I think this has been discussed many times but It really is worth doing.
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