[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] Binary packaging guidelines

[Jan Knutar]

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 04:50, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

> While it is acceptable to provide packages optimized for specific CPUs
> You MUST provide at least one "lowest common denominator" package set
> that will work on all CPUs. This means it MUST be configured with
> --enable-runtime-cpudetection option. Building for specific CPUs requires
> disabling this option, but try to make sure that users cannot accidentally
> install a package not suitable for their CPU. With RPMs, for example, this
> is handled automatically, when building with "--target arch" rpm option.

I've seen users way too often whine in #mplayer about some random -K6
package they pulled in via apt-get or similar not supporting 3DNow. I'm not
sure how to document something aimed at preventing people from making
such broken packages, without sounding like a flame, though.