On Friday, 27 April 2007 at 23:59, Ed Hill wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:42:03 "Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" wrote: > > On Friday, 27 April 2007 at 20:29, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:14:35PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' > > > Mierzejewski wrote: > > > > > > Assume we have 64bit mplayer installed. > > > > $ mplayer foo > > > > doesn't work, needs 32bit binary blob codecs > > > > # yum install mplayer.i386 > > > > $ mplayer foo > > > > still doesn't work! aargh, why? oh, wait, rpm just ignored the > > > > 32bit binary even though there's a file conflict! > > > > <throwing laptop off the plane> > > > > > > Yes, the current and proposed bin sub-subpackaging solutions both > > > make you throw the laptop out of the window, so let's go for a > > > solution where the laptop stays on board, e.g. bin64. > > > > You're trying to solve a different problem. > > > > Lets make this absolutely clear: a lot of people (myself included) want > to see the above problem solved. I WANT my users (each and every one > of them on multi-user systems in fact) to be able to switch at will > between 32-bit and 64-bit versions of various applications. And I want a pure64 system with binaries in /bin so that I don't have to rewrite tons of my scripts. Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- 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
