On Fri, 21 May 2004, kevin lyda wrote:
> wouldn't a rebuild of a single source tarball with no dependancies
> be a better judge?
No no.. you want to able to verify any claims, see below.
> what would that prove?
Well, that they built it. And glibc-2.3.3-27*.i486.rpm arent commonly
available so the person would have had to built them themselves, and
you can verify they built it by installing it.
So, it's a perfect compile speed test.
> kevin
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