On 23. 5. 2013 at 13:33:37, Simone Caronni wrote: > Hello, > > On 22 May 2013 23:18, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > (10) Get rid of multilib, /usr/lib64 etc and copy what Debian/Ubuntu > > are doing. > > might I ask the reasoning behind this? I found the current RHEL/Fedora > approach much better. > > For example; at work we use IBM Lotus Notes, which is a 32 bit package. To > install it in a 32 bit or 64 bit environment the command is the same (i.e. > yum localinstall) as it will pull in the correct 32 bit dependencies. > Basically hassle free. > > The guys that run Debian/Ubuntu notebooks, have to go through a series of > dependency problems just to install the package in a 64 bit environment > with getlibs and the like: +1 for this, the dependency hell for 32 bit applications is really a major pain in the new versions of Ubuntu. I have dealt with that multiple times and I wasn't able to resolve all the problems (e.g. Google Earth still doesn't work on Ubuntu for me) . Thanks Jan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
