On Tue 2008-07-08 23:38, RedShift wrote: > Thomas Bächler wrote: > [...] >> Now, again, you gave me a list of ideological reasons not to do it, but >> where exactly is the point where this damages your "pure" system >> technically? > > It's about the technical purity. It's this that makes us different > from the other distro's. Otherwise we're just on the road to the next > ubuntu. And if you really want 32 bit stuff running on x86-64, just > use a 32 bit chroot and don't bother with the multilib stuff. Well, I see a lot of lib32-* packages in the [community] repo, this means people do want this stuff; at the same time, lib32 packages kind of suck (just read a PKGBUILD to find out why). Arch always provided closed-source software too, so there is no such "purity" to maintain. Thomas proposed to create an ad-hoc repo, so the *-32bit won't even pollute the official repos, I don't see how cleaner this could be; If you don't enable it, then it won't affect your system at all. P.s. There should be a Godwin's-like Law for the phrase "we are on the road to Ubuntu"... -- Alessio (molok) Bolognino Please send personal email to themolok@xxxxxxxxx Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFE0270FB GPG Key ID = 1024D / FE0270FB 2007-04-11 Key Fingerprint = 9AF8 9011 F271 450D 59CF 2D7D 96C9 8F2A FE02 70FB
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