On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 13:50 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:27:00AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 11:21 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:56:33AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 10:24 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:03:00PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > > > > > > [... Changing all specfiles by splitting out bin subpackages > > > > > > > > > vs simply defining a new _bindir ...] > > > > > > > > Yes, but it does involve much more work to do. > > > > > > > > > > > > Packaging is hard. Let's go shopping. > > > > > > > > > > No, the above is not hard to do, it is a straightforward thing to do > > > > > that will occupy a full or more than one release cycle(s). > > > > > > > > > > I prefer to get F8 with some new features as well and not only a mass > > > > > review again. Which wil involve thre times as many packages as the FC > > > > > merge review which we didn't manage to finish. > > > > > > > > Actually, this one should be quite easy to automate. > > > > > > > > We've spent too long trying to take short-cuts and do the easiest thing > > > > in the _short_ term for multilib -- and it shows. It's time to start > > > > doing it properly, IMHBCO. > > > > > > Exactly and the proper thing for multilib is: Let it die, multiarch rulez! > > > > Apparently you haven't understood what multilibs are. > > Obviously your personal definition of multilib includes > cross-compiling for x86_64 on i386. Yes, because THIS is multilib'ing. > But we call multilib something > else here, please adjust. The concept of multilibs as being defined by GCC exists for than a decade (More precisely: <= 1995). What you are naming multilibs is mixing architectures at run-time. The correct term for this would be multi-arch'ing or bi-arch'ing as far as the ix86 family is concerned. Multilibs can be applied to implement multi-arch'ing, but actually multi-arching isn't tied to multilibs at all. Ralf -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
