Re: Proposal: Rethink Fedora multilib support

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On 01/06/2017 07:33 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 05/01/17 14:42 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
>> On Thu, 2017-01-05 at 17:02 +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>>> Which definitely changes how software is built.
>>
>> Containers also change the way software must be written in some cases,
>> since they expect there to be one main process and don't expect that
>> main process to interact with other "main" processes on the system.
>> There are some program architectures that aren't well suited to be run
>> in containers since containers expect programs to work in specific
>> ways. I don't think they are general enough to cover all use cases.
>>
>> I also expect that users will not appreciate being forced to use
>> containers if they want to keep being able to do things they can do
>> today. Offering it to them as an option rather than the only solution
>> is probably a friendlier approach.
> 
> 
> That would certainly be a problem if the proposal was to run each
> 32-bit application in its own container environment, but I think the
> suggestion is to have a single 32-bit container used by all 32-bit
> software. With that approach all the 32-bit software would be able to
> interact with the rest of the 32-bit system, there wouldn't be
> segregation between them.
> 


Yes, I was unclear about this, but that was where I was going with it. A single
32-bit container whose purpose was to share the 32-bit runtime. That being said,
the counter-proposal of figuring out how to keep the layout the same as today
but keeping the content in separate repositories is compelling and I'm
investigating that further.


> But we would need to consider how a 32-bit application starts other
> programs via things like xdg-open. Would you have to have a 32-bit
> browser installed so that you could click on links in 32-bit
> applications? Would xdg-utils have to be installed on the system
> twice, once in the 64-bit host and once in the 32-bit container? And
> install things like Firefox and image viewers twice?

Very good questions and I don't have all the answers right now, but again, I
think the "separate repository" solution might be closer, as the end result
should keep things in the same hierarchy.


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