On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:29:42 -0600, Matthew wrote: > > There are just too many -devel packages and their dependencies to be ever > > relevant to someone for multi-arch installs. Far more users install i686 on > > 64-bit CPUs, and I have doubts that x86_64 installation users do much > > development with i686 packages. At most they install 32-bit apps where > > 64-bit builds aren't available or "less good". > > You forget people developing proprietary software... Why would development of proprietary software have different requirements with regard to multilib installations? When I wrote "...I have doubts that x86_64 installation users do much development with i686 packages", I didn't exclude developers of proprietary software either. There may be some who do it actually, but I don't have any numbers. I only see more users who run into problems because of the multiarch repos. > or even just > multilib apps. Multilib is useful if you want to build the 32-bit > version of something on an x86_64 box (and don't want to set up a full > chroot / VM). The "don't want to" is questionable. Development of the 32-bit version would still need a full 32-bit test installation. It need not be the x86_64 box to do full multi-booting instead of VM, but even multi-booting would be convenient enough, considering how quickly something like Fedora can be installed. Typical development is not trial-and-error compilation of both 64-bit and 32-bit and alternating, but rather development on either arch till something is ready to be built for and to be tested on a different arch. Same for multiple target distributions. > (Doubly so for proprietary stuff that may need to build both 32- and > 64-bit in the same build tree.) Again, what special requirements come with the "proprietary" part? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
