On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:27:03AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > - installation of third-party software that is only available for the > secondary arch, in a way that allows it to run How much of this is there in the real world? I mean, we're talking dozens of packages at *most*, right? Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, and Oracle all have 64-bit versions. So in our environment at BU, that leaves Splus (rapidly being displaced by R) and the Flash plugin. And I'm not convinced that the ability to build 32-bit code outside of a chroot is a huge deal either. In five years, that's going to be a really narrow group of users, and do we really want to design our whole system just for that? -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- 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
