On 23. 5. 2013 at 15:25:23, Michal Schmidt wrote: > On 05/23/2013 03:10 PM, Jan Zelený wrote: > > On 23. 5. 2013 at 14:23:30, Michal Schmidt wrote: > >> On 05/23/2013 01:44 PM, Jan Zelený wrote: > >>> +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) > >> > >> Isn't that simply because deb packages do not express library > >> dependencies in as detailed way as rpm packages do? > >> > >> I'm sure Richard was not suggesting to get rid of that rpm feature. > > > > TBH I'm not perfectly sure what causes the problem but since the new > > "multilib" in Ubuntu started I am dealing with a whole bunch of issues > > like > > the one I described. So to sum up, I personally think we are doing much > > better with the way how things work in Fedora. > > In some ways we are, in other aspects we are not. Drawing conclusions > from your experience with Google Earth without real understanding is a > mistake. That's completely true. But again I'm not even sure this is something that: a) can be fixed on rpm level b) is other than a policy issue All in all I think this is something that should be brought to FESCO (maybe proposed as a Fedora Feature?) before anything else. Thanks Jan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
