Bill Nottingham wrote : > One of the things we've been looking at is improving support for > multilib/multiarch environments. The next big step is handling > devel packages so they can be installed in a multilib fashion. > > However, many devel packages have conflicts in their header > and similar files. Let me ask a silly question here : Why do we want to encourage people to build 32bit stuff on 64bit installs? As far as I'm concerned, we should already be trying to fix everything that made some 32bit packages get into 64bit installs (unfortunately, things like binary web browser plugins aren't helping). IMHO, there is too much workload and complexity created by any of the suggestions made. Just setarch and use mach or moch. Trying to get multiarch devel packages is probably going to be close to cross-compiling... ugly hacks, hard-to-manage-long Fedora specific patches upstream authors won't want to include, etc. Just my opinion, then again, I've never liked the whole multilib concept, and seeing it about to get worse gets me wondering some more. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) - Linux kernel 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 Load : 0.23 0.19 0.35
