Re: Software Management call for RFEs

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On 05/23/2013 02:58 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

The reason I specifically said:

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.

is that Debian and derivatives are more popular than Fedora and the
Linux community ought to settle on one way of doing this, which just
by virtue of popularity and completeness of the proposal means doing
it the Debian way in this case.

The "Debian way" (not sure if it's actually the "Ubuntu way") hasn't been widely upstreamed. GCC didn't build for a year or two, and many upstream configure-type scripts still fail. The lib64 approach appears to be less invasive (or Fedora was just better at upstreaming support for it 8-).

Some of the rationale for multiarch doesn't make much sense anymore. For example, you can now use IFUNCs to select specialized functions at run time and don't have to ship separate DSOs anymore.

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