The reason this helps the Signet project is because it means being able to develop the code without having to wait for hours to compile the cross compiler and cross compile the libraries. Instead, we have a fast, reproducible way to get the the libraries that are either grossly outdated in the official repo, or don't have any package at all in that repo.
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To give you an idea of the amount of time we're talking about here, the estimate on the build for this library is 5 hours.
If the something goes wrong (I used the wrong flags, the wrong include path, the wrong architecture, something unknow but it not worky, etc.), that's 5 hours wasted.
Not only that, but it means that I'm constantly taking long breaks and going off to do other projects. It's friction like this that is how people can easily get too many started projects and not enough finished ones.
