Re: Proposal: Rethink Fedora multilib support (Take Two!)

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On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/06/2017 01:08 AM, drago01 wrote:
>>
>>     Two suggestions were raised as alternatives to the container approach:
>>
>>     * Switch to using the Debian style of multi-arch layout, which instead of
>>     /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 uses /usr/lib/$ARCH-linux-gnu. Benefits to this would
>>     include the emergence of a de-facto standard for system layout between the major
>>     distributions.
>>
>>     * Ship only one arch in the repositories and allow users to trivially enable the
>>     repositories for other arches through DNF if they have need.
>>
>>
>>
>> *  Keep things as they are, which means things keep to "just work" (tm)
>
> As Bill pointed out, things "just work" for users right now and that's something
> we'd like to avoid breaking. However, that does *not* mean that it is trivial to
> do on the build side.

That may be, but shifting the complexity to the user is simply not an
option that we should seriously consider.
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