> 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. +10 I completely agree. Is there a defensibly good reason why we should be encouraging more multilib packages for fedora? -sv
