Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Rob Browning]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Whether the duplication is significant can only be decided based on
> actual usage figures.  It is incorrect to assess this based on the
> *.elc files, since those are independent of almost everything.
> There's high probability of wrong decisions based on that analogy.
> There are many factors that affect compatibility of *.eln files to
> Emacs binaries; for example, it's enough to add or remove a primitive,
> and you will need a whol;e new set of *.eln files.  Thus, it is quite
> possible that duplication will be smaller and OTOH waste of disk space
> due to unnecessarily compiled *.eln files will be higher than you
> envision.  Only practice will show the real situation.

I think I've probably made this clear elsewhere, but in case not, that
wouldn't be the case for Debian specifically.  There could/would only be
*one* eln tree for the whole system with the current packaging.

And that tree would be rebuilt when appropriate, in dependency order
(*if* we end up deciding to pursuse this).

-- 
Rob Browning
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